Perry v. State
| Decision Date | 20 May 1919 |
| Docket Number | 8 Div. 644 |
| Citation | 17 Ala.App. 80,81 So. 858 |
| Parties | PERRY v. STATE. |
| Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Limestone County; Robert C. Brickell Judge.
Jesse Perry was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon, and he appeals. Reversed and remanded.
Fred Wall, of Athens, for appellant.
J.Q Smith, Atty. Gen., and Horace Wilkinson, Asst. Atty. Gen for the State.
The record in this cause presents rather an unusual state of affairs. First, it is shown that an affidavit was made before a justice of the peace charging this defendant with the offense of carrying a concealed pistol about his person. Without more, we next find a judgment of guilt in the county court of Limestone county. Next we find that the cause is tried in the circuit court of said county, upon what process it is not shown, and from a judgment of conviction in said court this appeal is taken. If the original warrant sworn out before the justice of the place was made returnable to the county court, this fact should have been shown by the record otherwise no jurisdiction of the case is shown to have been vested in the county court. And upon appeal from conviction in the county court to the circuit court the record should disclose that the necessary steps had been taken to perfect the appeal. Code, § 6725. Thereupon the trial in the circuit court should be de novo, and without indictment or presentment by the grand jury; "but the solicitor shall make a brief statement of the cause of complaint, signed by him," etc. (Code 1907, § 6730), and, unless this statement is waived, it is error to place the defendant upon trial in the circuit court in cases appealed from a judgment of conviction in the county court. Moss v. State, 42 Ala. 546; Haynes v. State, 5 Ala.App. 167, 59 So. 325; James M. Howard v. State, 81 So. 345.
In the instant case no such statement of the cause of complaint was signed by the solicitor, nor filed in the cause, nor is such statement shown to have been waived; therefore, under the authorities of the cases supra, the judgment of conviction must be reversed, and the cause remanded.
We are not prepared to hold that the court erred in overruling the motion of defendant to exclude the evidence. The appellant simply moved the court to exclude the evidence without assigning any grounds therefor. The proper practice in such cases is to assign as grounds the failure of the evidence to establish a...
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