Court Opinion

ID: 3230003
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 16:05:41.630465+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:33.535436
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Judgment affirmed.
                              On Rehearing.
The appeal in this case was on the record. No brief was filed, and, finding no reversible error apparent on the record, the judgment was affirmed without opinion. On application for rehearing appellant files an elaborate brief, raising the question that no jurisdiction is shown in the circuit court and therefore a reversal must follow.
There is a certificate of the clerk of the circuit court to the effect that the record from pages 1 to 4, both inclusive, contains a true and correct transcript of the record and proceedings had in the circuit court on the trial of the case. The record discloses the organization of the court. Then follows an affidavit charging defendant with violating prohibition laws, a warrant issued returnable before the recorder, and an appeal bond from a judgment entered on the 27th day of June, 1924, by the recorder before whom the warrant was made returnable. This appeal bond was signed by defendant and sureties, and is marked: "Approved this 27th day of June, 1924, Recorder of the City of Mobile." Under the statute, the recorder had jurisdiction to issue the warrant and to try and determine the cause, and, upon an appeal being taken, to approve an appeal bond to the circuit court of Mobile county. No judgment of the recorder appears in the record, and perhaps the appeal bond, being uncertain in its description of the judgment in the recorder's court from which the appeal is taken, and not being approved by the person holding the office of recorder in the city of Mobile, and being payable to the city of Mobile, would *Page 245 
be insufficient to transfer the case to the circuit court of Mobile county notwithstanding the opinion in the case of Ex parte State ex rel. Atty. Gen., in re McLosky, 98 So. 708,210 Ala. 458.
But the circuit court of Mobile county undoubtedly has jurisdiction of the offense of violating prohibition laws, which jurisdiction is fixed by law to be exercised upon a formal accusation sufficient to apprise the defendant of the nature and the cause of the charge against him. Where this is done irregularities in obtaining jurisdiction of the person may be waived. Sherrod v. State, 71 So. 76, 14 Ala. App. 57; Ex parte Rice, 15 So. 450, 102 Ala. 671; Sanders v. State,79 So. 312, 16 Ala. App. 531; Booth v. State (Ala.App.)105 So. 912;1 Ex parte Rodgers, 67 So. 710, 12 Ala. App. 218. In the instant case the judgment entry recites:
"This day came the state of Alabama by its solicitor and the defendant in his own proper person, and with his attorney and defendant in open court on this day waived arraignment and pleaded 'not guilty' to an affidavit charging him with the offense of violating the prohibition laws of the state of Alabama, and agreed to go to trial on the original affidavit."
This was a waiver of jurisdiction as to the person, and, there being no challenge of the affidavit, but a specific agreement by defendant to go to trial thereon, and the circuit court having the original jurisdiction over the crime charged, the defendant is precluded from raising the question of jurisdiction for the first time in this court.
The application for rehearing is overruled.
1 Ante, p. 160.