Case ID: ala_154/html/0052-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DENSON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Gordy v. The State.
    
      Assault to Rape.
    
    (Decided Feb. 13, 1908.
    45 South. 901.)
    1. Courts; Terms; Judgment. — A judgment rendered at a term of the court not authorized by law is void for want of jurisdiction.
    2. Criminal Law; Appeal; Judgment to Support. — A void judgment will not «support an appeal.
    Appeal from Autauga Circuit Court.
    Heard before Hon. W. W. Pearson.
    Pettus Gordy was convicted of crime and appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    O. E. O. Timmerman, for appellant. — -No 'brief came to tbe Reporter.
    Alexander M. Garber, Attorney General, for tbe State.
   DENSON, J.

The indictment in tbis case was found, and tbe triad and conviction of tbe defendant were bad, at a term of tbe circuit court for Autauga county beld at a time not.authorized by law; hence tbe proceedings were void. Tbe judgment will not support an appeal, and tbis appeal must be dismissed. — Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. v. J. J. Grant, 153 Ala. 112, 45 South. 226; Bill Rigsby, alias, etc. v. State, 153 Ala. 37, 45 South. 227.

Appeal dismissed.

Tyson, O. J., and Anderson and McClellan, JJ-., concur.