Craven v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Randolph County; S. L. Brewer, Judge. Andrew Craven was convicted for failure to work the public roads and appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Randolph County; S. L. Brewer, Judge. Andrew Craven was convicted for failure to work the public roads and appeals. The information was as follows: That before the commencement of this prosecution Andrew Craven willfully failed to work the public roads, either in person or by substitute, after having been legally warned to work the public roads, the said Andrew Craven at the time being a person liable to work the public roads and for road duty, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. ’ The information charges no offense, and the defendant should have…
1Opinion of the CourtMerritt, J.
The complaint filed by the solicitor in the circuit court in this case proceeds under section 7737 of the Code of 1907. By act approved September 20, 1915, Acts 1915, p. 623, this section of the Code was repealed.
[1] The trial of the case, however, seems to have proceeded under a lruie or regulation adopted by the commissioners’ court of Randolph county, which regulation pertaining to the working of the public roads the commissioners’ court had the right to adopt under the Acts of 1915, p. 573. Isbell v. State, 17 Ala. App. 465, 86 South. 169.
[2, 3] The complaint is not only defective in that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Isbell v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1920
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- Sullivan v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1923
- Hays v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1930