Robinson v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Clay County Court. Heard before Hon. E. J. Garrison. Jim Robinson was indicted for murder in the first degree, convicted of murder in the second degree, and he appeals.
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Appeal from Clay County Court. Heard before Hon. E. J. Garrison. Jim Robinson was indicted for murder in the first degree, convicted of murder in the second degree, and he appeals. The defendant interposed the following objection to going to trial: Because the court had adjourned by operation of law, as the act passed by the last Legislature, changing the time of holding the court, was not published in a newspaper published in a county, as provided by the Coonstitution; and (2) that the act was not published in full as to the proposed amendment, as provided by the Constitution. Motion was…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
The question raised by the defendant as to the legality of the grand jury by which the indictment against him was found is based upon suggestions against the constitutional validity of the act approved March 3, 1911, which purports to change the times for holding the regular terms of the county court of Clay. — Local Acts 1911, p. 63.
The first of these suggestions is that the notice which was published of the intention to apply for that act did not “state the substance of the proposed law,” as required by section 106 of the Constitution. The- no.*5tice, as it is set out in the record, stated…
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