Court Opinion

ID: 9695165
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:10:19.894089+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:09.408256
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On Rehearing
PER CURIAM.
In brief on application for rehearing the Attorney General argues that, from the common law, courts of record have the inherent and discretionary power to require upon conviction, as a part of the punishment, that a defendant give security to keep the peace, and that the court’s action here was founded on authority incident to the common law, and not upon the power conferred by Section 419, Title 15, Code of Alabama 1940.
We find no merit in this argument. The authorities hold that such common-law jurisdiction cannot “be exercised as to purely statutory offenses, nor in cases of common-law offenses for which punishment is prescribed by statute. Hence it can only exist as to common-law offenses, for which common-law punishment only can be inflicted.” State v. Gilliland, 51 W.Va. 278, 41 S.E. 131, 57 L.R.A. 426, 90 Am.St.Rep. 793; Deskins v. Childers, 195 Ky. 209, 242 S.W. 9; State v. Read, 164 La. 315, 113 So. 860, 54 A.L.R. 383. 15 Am.Jur., Criminal Law, Sections 556, 557.
The complaints here charge statutory offenses, for which statutory punishment is provided. Title 13, Sections 366, 369, Code of Alabama 1940.
Application overruled.