Reed v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Gadsden. Tried before the Hon. Joi-in IL Disque. The appellant in this case, Floyd Reed, was prosecuted and convicted for violating a stock law in letting his , stock run at large within the territory alleged to have been Avithin the stock latv district. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from the City Court of Gadsden. Tried before the Hon. Joi-in IL Disque. The appellant in this case, Floyd Reed, was prosecuted and convicted for violating a stock law in letting his , stock run at large within the territory alleged to have been Avithin the stock latv district. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. There can only be one election held under the act p-roAdd-ing for the establishment of a stock law district in Eto-Avah county. — Acts of 1900-01, 170, § 3. The defendant Avas Avrongfully convicted. — Street v. Hoot-en, 131 Ala. 492. ■ cited Washington…
1Opinion of the Court
I-IARALSON, J.-
— The State introduced a petition, dated 1st April, 1902, signed by eleven house-holders and free-holders resident in that part of beat 17, Etowah county, which was particularly described by metes and bounds, praying that stock should be prohibited from running at large therein, and showed that after a due compliance with the directions of the act of 1900-1901 (Acts 1900-1901, p. 170), to prevent stock from running at large in said county, an election was held at a designated place in said beat 17, on the 28th April, 1902, at which a majority of the votes cast were for no stock…
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