Davenport v. State
Decision Date | 07 September 1916 |
Docket Number | 6 Div. 94 |
Citation | 15 Ala.App. 325,73 So. 209 |
Parties | DAVENPORT v. STATE |
Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
Rehearing Denied Oct. 19, 1916
Appeal from Criminal Court, Jefferson County; W.E. Fort, Judge.
Oscar Davenport was convicted of violation of the prohibition statute, and appeals. Affirmed.
H.K White, of Birmingham, for appellant.
W.L Martin, Atty. Gen., and H.G. Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment of conviction for violation of the prohibition statute. The affidavit contained six counts. A motion to quash was made, addressed to the affidavit as a whole, and demurrers were interposed addressed to the second and subsequent counts. The state elected to prosecute only under the first count; consequently we pretermit all discussion save as to that count.
The first count charged defendant, in the alternative, with manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, keeping for sale or otherwise disposing of, prohibited liquors or beverages contrary to law. It is sufficient to charge these offenses in the language of the statute (Acts 1915, p. 30, § 29 1/2; Hancock's Case, 71 So. 973; Kirk's Case, 70 So. 990) and they may be joined in the alternative in the same count (Code 1907, § 7151).
The bill of exceptions discloses a motion made by appellant that the cause be tried by a jury. Under the act creating the criminal court of Jefferson county a jury is deemed waived in misdemeanor cases unless "within ten days after [he] is arrested or taken into custody or *** the court *** assumes jurisdiction of [said] case" the accused file with the clerk of said court a written demand for a jury. Acts 1886-87, p. 838, § 13. The bill of exceptions recites:
Transcript, pp. 6, 7.
For aught that appears from the transcript filed here, we do not know and cannot say that said written demand was timely filed. In the absence of an affirmative showing to the contrary, we must presume that the said demand was not seasonably filed. A bill of exceptions is construed most strongly against the appellant, as it is presumed that he will make the best presentation of his appeal the circumstances...
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