Alexander v. Posey

HARWOOD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of Honorable Gardner Go'odwyn, Judge of the Bessemer Division of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, granting the petition of Ernest Posey (appellee) for a writ of habeas corpus, and discharging him from the custody of Lacey Alexander, Chief of Police of the City of Bessemer.

The appellee was on 15 November, 1945, found guilty in the Police Court of the City of Bessemer of a violation of a city ordinance pertaining to alcoholic or brewed beverages.

The judgment and sentence entered by the judge of the Police Court was in words and figures as…