Collins v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of violating the prohibition laws (Code 1923, §§ 4615-4800) by unlawfully having in his possession prohibited liquor.

The prosecution was begun by affidavit made before a justice of the peace, and a warrant issued by him returnable to the law court of Pike county. Acts 1888-89, p. 631. The case was later transferred to the docket of the circuit court of Pike county, under the terms of the act of the Legislature of Alabama approved August 16, 1915. Gen. Acts 1915, p. 279.

Appellant claims a “discontinuance of the prosecution” in the law court of Pike…