Jones v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Tallapoosa Circuit Court. Heard before Hou. Bernard Harwood. Proceedings by the State of Alabama against L. D. Jones for search and seizure of prohibited liquors. Judgment for the state, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Tallapoosa Circuit Court. Heard before Hou. Bernard Harwood. Proceedings by the State of Alabama against L. D. Jones for search and seizure of prohibited liquors. Judgment for the state, and defendant appeals. The affidavit is as follows: “Before me, G. J. Sorrell, county judge of Tallapoosa county, appeared A. W. Briscoe, who, being duly sworn, deposes and says that L. D. Jones, alias Bed Jones, alias Bud Jones, keeps a place where spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors or beverages are kept for sale or otherwise disposed of, contrary to law, being located at his dwelling house in…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, P. J.
The affidavit upon which the search warrant was issued showed the existence of the ground for the issuance of such process which is stated in paragraph “a” of subdivision 6 of section 22 of the act “to *162further suppress the evils of intemperance,” etc., approved August 25, 1909.—Acts Ala. Sp. Sess. 1909, 63, 76. The objections raised by the defendant’s motion to quash the search warrant and by his demurrer to the affidavit and complaint were properly disposed of, as is shown by what was said in the opinion rendered in the case of Toole v. State, 170 Ala. 43, 54 South. 195.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Toole v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1910
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