Owens v. State

The appellant here, defendant in the court below, was convicted of being a vagrant. The prosecution was begun by affidavit and warrant in the Jefferson county court of misdemeanors. From a judgment of conviction in that court, the defendant appealed to the circuit court, was again convicted, and from the judgment of conviction in the circuit court this appeal is taken.

The act of the Legislature establishing the Jefferson county court of misdemeanors was approved on September 10, 1919. Local Acts of Alabama, 1919, p. 121 et seep Section 30 of said act provides that appeals from judgments of…