Aderhold v. City of Anniston

Decision Date06 February 1893
Citation12 So. 472,99 Ala. 521
PartiesADERHOLD v. MAYOR, ETC., OF CITY OF ANNISTON.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Appeal from city court of Anniston; B. F. Cassady, Judge.

Joseph E. Aderhold was tried and convicted before the recorder of the city of Anniston for a violation of ordinance 317, which provides that "any person who engages or participates in any fight or affray must, on conviction, be fined not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars." An appeal was taken from the judgment of the recorder to the city court, from which court the present appeal is prosecuted. Affirmed.

On the trial of the case in the city court of Anniston, the plaintiff introduced in evidence ordinance No. 317 and ordinance No. 102, which is as follows: "In trials before the recorder for violation of city ordinances, the recorder shall determine both the law and facts, and justice shall be speedily administered by him. No statement of the offense need be made, other than that contained in the summons or affidavit and warrant of arrest; and, if the defendant has been arrested without warrant, the entry on the recorder's docket of the offense charged shall be treated as such statement."

McLeod & Tunstall, for appellant.

John Pelham, for appellee.

HARALSON J.

The charter of the city of Anniston, as amended, (Acts 1890-91 p. 109, § 3,) provides that in cases of appeal from the recorder "the proceedings on such appeal shall be in all respects as prescribed by law in cases of appeals from judgments of a justice of the peace in civil cases, except as changed by this section. *** In case the defendant appears and judgment is rendered by said court for money, the court must also render judgment against the sureties on his appeal bond for the amount of such judgment and costs." Two ordinances of said city, Nos. 102 and 317, were introduced and are set out in the record. The defendant was arrested, so far as is shown, without affidavit or warrant. He appeared before the recorder, at his office, at the time to which he was summoned, "to answer to the charge of disorderly conduct." He pleaded not guilty, was regularly tried on that issue, on evidence introduced on both sides, and was fined and sentenced by the recorder. He appealed to the city court of Anniston, in the manner prescribed by the charter where, as we have seen, the case is required to be tried as appeals in civil cases from justice of the peace are tried. Coming to the city court, the plaintiff filed a complaint, as in civil cases, claiming the amount of the judgment and costs imposed on defendant by the recorder for violation of said ordinance No. 317, of said city, averring that the defendant within 12 months before the 11th of November, 1891, participated in a fight, in violation of said ordinance,...

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