Boone v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile City Court. Heard before Hon. O. J. Semmes. Burwell Boykin Boone was convicted of acting as attorney for a public utility corporation, while holding a municipal office, in violation of statute, and be appeals.
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Appeal from Mobile City Court. Heard before Hon. O. J. Semmes. Burwell Boykin Boone was convicted of acting as attorney for a public utility corporation, while holding a municipal office, in violation of statute, and be appeals. Omitting the formal charging part, the indictment is as follows: “(1) Burwell Boykin Boone, an officer of tlie city of Mobile, a municipality in this state, acted as the attorney for a public utility corporation doing business or exercising its franchise in the corporate limits of said municipality. (2) Burwell Boykin Boone, an officer of the city of Mobile, a…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Section 6321, Code 1907, provides that: “Any officer, alderman, or councilman of any municipality in this state who shall act as the attorney for any public utility corporation doing business or exercising its franchises in the corporate limits of the municipality, must, on conviction, be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and may also be sentenced to hard labor for not less than one nor more than three months.” Appellant, having been convicted on an indictment charging a violation of this section, brings his case here for review.
Two reasons are urged why the…
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