Eddins v. Popwell

HARWOOD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit entered in a habeas corpus proceedings, which judgment sustained appellee’s demurrers to the answer and amended answer of appellant to appellee’s petition and ordered the release of the appellee from the custody of the appellant, C. Floyd Eddins, Chief of Police of the City of Birmingham.

From the record it appears that the appellee had been convicted in the Recorder’s Court of the City of Birmingham on 17 June 1946 of the offense of violating the State Firearms Act. The Recorder, as punishment,…