State v. Lamar
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Selma City Court. Heard before Hon. J. W. Mabry. Law Lamar, Jr., was arrested upon a warrant and affidavit charging a violation of the fertilizer law, whereupon, he brought habeas corpus, and from an order discharging him, the State appeals. In an opinion handed down by the Supreme Court on May 9, 1912, 59 South. 473, the judgment of the Court of Appeals ivas reversed and petitioner discharged.
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Appeal from Selma City Court. Heard before Hon. J. W. Mabry. Law Lamar, Jr., was arrested upon a warrant and affidavit charging a violation of the fertilizer law, whereupon, he brought habeas corpus, and from an order discharging him, the State appeals. In an opinion handed down by the Supreme Court on May 9, 1912, 59 South. 473, the judgment of the Court of Appeals ivas reversed and petitioner discharged. Section 5, General Acts 1907, p. 22, of necessity repeals so much of section 45, Code 1907, as excludes cotton seed meal from the term “fertilizer material” and it is there declared to be…
1Opinion of the Court
de GRAFFENRIED, J. —
On the 27th day of September, 1911, Law Lamar, Jr., was arrested under a warrant issued by a justice of the peace of Dallas county, upon an affidavit charging that said Law Lamar, Jr., had been guilty of the offense of “selling cotton seed' meal containing 7% per cent, of ammonia for fertilizing purposes, without having attached to the package containing the same the tax tag (Alabama tax tag) prepared by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.” Thereupon the said Lamar filed his petition to the Honorable J. W. Mabry, judge of the city court of Selma, for a writ of…
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