Legal Opinion

Jones v. City of Montgomery

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided January 15, 1918No. 3 Div. 305PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Leon McCord, Judge. Claud B. Jones was tried and convicted for a violation of an ordinance of the city of Montgomery prohibiting a violation of the prohibition laws of the state. He was convicted by the recorder, appealed to the circuit court of Montgomery county, and from a judgment of conviction in that court he appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtSamford, J.

It was shown on the trial that two of the police officers of the city of Montgomery, on the 23d day of April, 1917, went into a room at 8% Washington street, in the city of Montgomery, upstairs, which room was being occupied by the defendant as a bedroom; that the room was over a vacant store in the second story of the building, and was entered from the street; that in the room at the time was found 48 bottles of beer, 12 of which were on ice and the remaining 36 were in a burean drawer in the room; that the ground floor was a vacant storeroom, unoccupied hut for rent, and that the second…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Conner v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1918
  2. Ex Parte JonesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1918

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