Rollins v. City of Birmingham

This is an appeal from a conviction of presenting a pistol at another person in violation of an ordinance of the city of Birmingham. The jury fixed defendant's punishment at a fine of fifty dollars, and the trial court imposed a sentence of ten days hard labor for the city as additional punishment.

According to the testimony of Officer Norma K. Hunt, of the Birmingham Police Department, she was driving south a little after midnight in her personal automobile when she observed another automobile traveling at a speed in excess of eighty miles per hour. Officer Hunt at the time was on her way…