Knight v. City of Birmingham

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The Complaint is in the following language: “Comes the City of Birmingham, Alabama, a municipal corporation, and complains that Joe P. Knight, within twelve months before the beginning of this prosecution and within the City of Birming*118ham or the police jurisdiction thereof, did change or alter a meter through which electricity was furnished in such manner that electricity could be used or consumed without passing through and properly registering upon said meter by disconnecting said meter from the line socket terminals or clips and connecting other wires to said line…