Shapiro v. City of Birmingham

The appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for the violation of an ordinance of the City of Birmingham, Alabama, and appeals.

There are two points urged as error in brief and argument which invite our review. The first challenges the constitutionality of the ordinance upon which prosecution was rested. The second relates to the action of the court in refusing to challenge for cause one of the twenty-four jurors in the panel from which the jury was to be selected to try the case. We discuss them in this order.

The validity of the ordinance cannot be considered for the…