Legal Opinion
Tolbert v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided September 4, 1975No. SC 1136PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHORES, Justice.
We granted certiorari in this case because the court has not considered the constitutionality of the Alabama Worthless Check Act enacted by the 1971 Legislature, Act No. 2479, Vol. V, page 3958, approved October 1, 1971, and now carried as Title 14, §§ 234(9)-(21), Code of Alabama Recompiled 1958, Pocket Part. The Court of Criminal Appeals held the act constitutional.
The legislature stated the purpose of the act as follows:
’Tt is the purpose of this act to provide a remedy for the evil of giving checks on a depository without first providing sufficient funds or credit in such…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Leary v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad v. TurnipseedSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- People v. VinnolaSupreme Court of Colorado · 1972
- Starr v. StarrSupreme Court of Alabama · 1974
- Carr v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1894
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Barnette v. EvansCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
- Piggly Wiggly No. 208, Inc. v. DuttonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1992
- Whitaker v. Lockert (In Re Whitaker)United States Bankruptcy Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1982
- Duncan v. KentSupreme Court of Alabama · 1979
- Eldridge v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982
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