State v. Roden

Proceeding by the State of Alabama, against Israel Roden. From an order discharging Roden the state appealed to the Court of Appeals, which certified the question of the constitutionality of Acts 1915, p. 436, to the Supreme Court. Opinion declaring the law unconstitutional certified to the Court of Appeals, which thereupon affirmed Roden's discharge. Section 139 of the Constitution provides that: "The judicial power of the state shall be vested in the Senate sitting as a court of impeachment, a supreme court, circuit courts, chancery courts, courts of probate, such courts of law and equity…