Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Andalusia City Court. ITeai’d before Hon. R. H. Jones-. Will Williams was convicted of a misdemeanor, and lie appeals. The record shows the organization of the circuit court of Covington county, which convened at the court house thereof on Monday, the 23d day of-May, 1910, the judge presiding, the name of the grand" jurors impaneled, together with the other necessary orders of the court.
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Appeal from Andalusia City Court. ITeai’d before Hon. R. H. Jones-. Will Williams was convicted of a misdemeanor, and lie appeals. The record shows the organization of the circuit court of Covington county, which convened at the court house thereof on Monday, the 23d day of-May, 1910, the judge presiding, the name of the grand" jurors impaneled, together with the other necessary orders of the court. Following this is a general order of the judge of the circuit court, entered on May 21, 1908, transferring all causes' now pending on the circuit court docket wherein parties defendant were…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
The. point taken against the constitutionality of the statute has been decided adversely to the appellant.—Christian v. State, Infra, 52, 54 South. 1001.
The indictment found in the record purports to have beep presented in the circuit court of Covington county on May 27, 1910. By plea in abatement, and-by motion to strike the cause from the docket, the defendant took the point that no certified copy of the record of the proceedings had in said cause in the circuit court had been filed in the city court. The act creating the city court of Andalusia (Loc. Acts 1907, p. 330 et seq.) provides,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Christian v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1911
- Wiley v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1897
- Goodloe v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Flanigan v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1946
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- Murphy v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1912