Shine v. State

I respectfully dissent from the judgment of reversal herein. Wheat v. State, 281 Ala. 287, 202 So.2d 73.

Shine was a party to a cunctative man-oeuvre to hinder a municipal court sentence. This circumstance alone should keep us from designating his would-be captors as assailing trespassers to be shot down as though they were vicious burglars, or boarding pirates.

According to what light I can perceive through the heat of Judge Johnson’s excoriation of the bail bondsmen, Shine had been convicted of an ordinance violation. In order to stall off going to city jail or paying a fine, he took an…