Court Opinion

ID: 6516445
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-19 18:27:06.61523+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:55:02.294143
License: Public Domain

BRICKELL, G. J.
On an appeal to a superior tribunal from a conviction of a violation of a municipal ordinance, the complaint must distinctly disclose the liability of the defendant; and the liability is disclosed when the complaint, as in the present .case, sets out the ordinance, and avers the act or acts of the- defendant in breach of it. The ordinance is in the alternative ; but the complaint singles out and specifies the alternative the defendaht-is charged with .haying violated. The *245demurrer was properly overruled. Ganaway v. Mayor, 21 Ala. 577; Case v. Mayor, 30 Ala. 538.
The trial was before the court without the intervention of a jury. And in this class of cases it has long been the settled rule not to reverse the judgment unless the decision of the court on the matters-of fact is manifestly wrong. Dane v. Mayor, 36 Ala. 304. We cannot say this of the decision in the present case ; nor can we say that the decision is not supported by the preponderance of the evidence. Manifestly, if the cause had been submitted to a jury, and a verdict rendered, the verdict could not have been set aside as contrary to the evidence .
Let the judgment be affirmed.