Davis v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

A jury found appellant-defendant guilty of robbery in Montgomery County and *808fixed his punishment at ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Judgment therefor was duly entered and this appeal was taken therefrom.

I

An issue here presented is whether defendant should have been arraigned by the court, advised of the charges against him and called upon to plead in person.

Section 2, Act 314, Acts of Alabama, Special and Regular Sessions 1973, Vol. 1, p. 444, a general act with local application to Montgomery County, reads as follows:

“If a defendant…