Reeves v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
AppeaXí from the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before tbe Hon. John P. Hubbabd. Tlie indictment in this case was found at tbe November term, 1889, of tbe Circuit Court of Butler county, and charged that the defendant, Robert Reeves, “by rude or indecent behavior, or by profane or indecent language, willfully disturbed a woman at a ’ public assembly, met for instruction or recreation, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.”
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AppeaXí from the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before tbe Hon. John P. Hubbabd. Tlie indictment in this case was found at tbe November term, 1889, of tbe Circuit Court of Butler county, and charged that the defendant, Robert Reeves, “by rude or indecent behavior, or by profane or indecent language, willfully disturbed a woman at a ’ public assembly, met for instruction or recreation, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.” At the same term, the case was, by an order entered upon the minutes of the Circuit Court, transferred to the County Court of Butler county. At the October…
1Opinion of the Court
"WALBEB, J.
By the repeal, as to Butler county, of the third and fourth sections of the act of March 19, 1875, “in relation to trials for misdemeanors in Tuskaloosa and other counties therein named,” that act, so far as it applies to Butler county, was left without any provision for a trial by jury in the County Court, on indictments for misdemeanors transferred to that court from the Circuit Court under the second section of the act.- — -Acts of 1874-75, p. 235; Acts of 1875-76, p. 361. It is provided by the second section of the act that, upon the transfer and delivery of such indictments to…
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