115 Ala. 87 | Ala. | 1896
The court is of opinion that the provision in the act of December 12, 1888, entitled “An act to establish a new charter for the city of Huntsville, ” to the effect that a person who has-been arraigned before- the mayor for a violation of a municipal ordinance cannot for the same act be prosecuted upon affidavit by the State before any other court or judicial officer, but must be proceeded against, if at all, before said mayor as ex officio justice of the peace, is not a subject expressed in, covered or suggested by said title, nor
We are, therefore, of the opinion that the provision of the charter of the city of Huntsville, forbidding the prosecution on affidavit before a justice of the peace of a person who has already been arraigned before the mayor for the same act under a city ordinance, is unconstitutional and void. It follows that the conviction of the defendant before the justice of the peace, Whitman, was had in the exercise of competent jurisdiction by the justice under the State law giving justices of the
Reversed and remanded.