Hodge v. City of Birmingham

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The prosecution in this case was begun in the Recorder’s Court of the City of Birmingham, Ala., and was for the violation of Section 600 of the General Code of Birmingham which prohibits the possession of lottery paraphernalia. From a judgment of conviction in said court an appeal was taken and perfected to the circuit court and was there tried by a jury upon a complaint filed by the attorneys for the City of Birmingham. He was again convicted as charged in the complaint and from the judgment pronounced and entered, this appeal was taken.

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