Stubblefield v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

Resort to the criminal law to enforce the performance of a civil obligation is not permissible under the law.

In the instant case the record shows that this petitioner was engaged in the buying and selling of used cars in Alabama. That for a period of several years he had numerous dealings with the prosecutor in this proceeding, one R. S. Fry, who was in the same kind of business in the State of Illinois. That on or about the 14th day of November, 1949, Stubblefield (petitioner), went to Chicago and bought two used cars from prosecutor, at and for the price of $2,445.…