Long v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Violating Prohibition Late. Appeal from Walker Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. T. L. Sowell. Dick Long was convicted of violating the local option law for Walker county, and appeals. — No brief came to the Reporter. — Counsel discuss the exceptions reserved and concludes that under the local option law, and in view of the fact that punishment for the offenses under that law and all other prohibitory law was fixed by the Acts of 1907, p. 366, no error intervened and the…
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Violating Prohibition Late. Appeal from Walker Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. T. L. Sowell. Dick Long was convicted of violating the local option law for Walker county, and appeals. — No brief came to the Reporter. — Counsel discuss the exceptions reserved and concludes that under the local option law, and in view of the fact that punishment for the offenses under that law and all other prohibitory law was fixed by the Acts of 1907, p. 366, no error intervened and the cause should be affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans', J.
— The indictment in this case was found and returned at the first term, 1908, of the circuit court of Walker county, was marked “Piled” by the clerk of the court on the 7th day of March, 1908. The defendant gave bond for his appearance “hit the present term of the court” to answer said indictment which was approved March 12, 1908. On November 9, 1908, the defendant filed in the said circuit court a paper writing in words as follows: “The State v. Dick Long. Comes the defendant in the above-styled cause and demands that his case now pending in the circuit court be transferred to the docket of…
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