Barton v. City of Bessemer
Alabama Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
On Rehearing.
The writ of habeas corpus is “the great key of liberty to unlock the prison doors of tyranny.” Such was the opening sentence of that great jurist, Thomas TI. Watts, in the case of Ex Parte Williams, in the county court of Pike county and quoted with approval by this court in State v. Thurman, 17 Ala.App. 656-658, 88 So. 61. It was written in the blood of freemen and came to us as a part of our inheritance from those who won it and preserved it through the centuries, even antedating Magna Charta. It is a part of the law of this state, preserved to us- under section 17 of the…
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2Cases cited7 opinions
- Ex parte BurnettSupreme Court of Alabama · 1857
- Barton v. City of BessemerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1937
- Drinkard v. OdenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1907
- State v. ThurmanAlabama Court of Appeals · 1921
- Fourment v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1908
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Janow v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1971
- Barton v. City of BessemerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1937
- Johnson v. Scripps Publishing Co.Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court · 1940
- Luckie v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1986
- Lanier v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2018
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