Billups v. City of Birmingham

This is an appeal from a conviction in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for a violation of Article XXV, Section 3, of the Zoning Regulations of the General City Code of the City of Birmingham, Alabama, concerning nonconforming uses. A jury assessed a fine of twenty-five dollars against the appellant and the trial judge imposed an additional sentence of sixty days hard labor.

I

Initially the appellant contends that he was tried on his appeal in the Circuit Court on a charge different from the one on which he was convicted in the Recorder's Court. Therefore, he argues, the Circuit Court was…