Brandon v. State

A material inquiry in this case is whether there was any such office in Jefferson county as deputy circuit clerk of the criminal division of the Tenth judicial circuit of Alabama at the time it is alleged appellant converted the funds set out in the indictment.

The supposed office purports to have been created by an act approved February 3, 1923, Gen.Acts 1923, p. 15, the title of which reads as follows: "To create the office of Deputy Circuit Clerk of the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court in all counties of the State having a population of more than two hundred thousand, according to the…