Burns v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Mobile. Tried before Hon. C. F. Moulton. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. [No briefs reached the Reporter.]
1Opinion of the CourtB. F. Saffold, J.
The appellant was convicted and fined under an indictment, charging him as a justice of the peaee, with solemnizing the rites of matrimony between a white person and a negro, contrary to the provisions of sections 3602,- 3603 of the Revised Code. It is contended for him that these statutes are superseded by an act of congress, passed April 9, 1866, “to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means for their vindicationand also, that they are in violation of both the State and Federal constitutions.
The first section of the act is in the following words:…
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