Spear v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. A. D. Sayre. The appellant, George Spear, was indicted, tried and convicted for resisting officers in the execution of a writ of arrest. On the trial of the case, the State introduced two deputy sheriffs, who testified to their going to the house of the defendant with a writ of arrest and seeking to execute it, and that thereupon the defendant presented a pistol at them, and demanded that they leave his house.
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. A. D. Sayre. The appellant, George Spear, was indicted, tried and convicted for resisting officers in the execution of a writ of arrest. On the trial of the case, the State introduced two deputy sheriffs, who testified to their going to the house of the defendant with a writ of arrest and seeking to execute it, and that thereupon the defendant presented a pistol at them, and demanded that they leave his house. The State then introduced in evidence the writ of arrest which was, in words and figures, as follows : "The State of…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted in the city court of Montgomery for resisting officers in the execution of a writ of arrest issued by the clerk of the criminal court of Pike county.
By provisions of the act of the General Assembly, “To' establish a criminal court for the county of Pike” (Acts, 1888-89, p. 631), it was made the duty of the judge of the circuit comí;, within ten days after the passage and approval of this act, to enter an order upon the minutes of his court, directing and requiring the clerk to deliver to the judge of the criminal court, all indictments for…
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