Cruikshank v. City of Birmingham

JOHNSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction, after verdict for violation of Sec. 1231 of the General City Code of Birmingham of 1944, which reads: .• ■

“It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse or fail to comply with any *2lawful order, signal or direction of a police officer.”

The City’s evidence tended to show that on April 7, 1963, at about 5:30 P. M., R. E. Middleton, a police officer for the City of Birmingham was ordered to go to Kelly Ingram Park at 6th Avenue and 17th Street, North, in Birmingham. Upon arriving at the park he saw a crowd of about two to. four hundred people in…