State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Allen

In this proceeding the constitutionality of the local act approved September 6, 1927, is attacked. This act creates the Birmingham court of common pleas. Local Acts 1927, p. 346. Its purpose is not to create a court of inferior jurisdiction in lieu of justices of the peace, as authorized by section 168 of the Constitution. Such an inferior court, called the municipal court of Birmingham, was then in existence. The municipal court was originally possessed of three divisions, with a judge, clerk, and bailiff for each. The second has been replaced by the Jefferson court of misdemeanors. Local…