Court Opinion

ID: 9825039
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 11:58:13.231172+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:21.604648
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
[3, 4] This court judicially knows that S. W. Burkett was judge of the county court of Houston county; and, while the better practice is to make warrants returnable to the county court, still when a warrant is issued by a justice of the peace, returnable before the judge of the county court, even though the judge of the county court be designated by name only, and the party upon whom the warrant is served, recognizing this, executes a bond for his appearance before the county court to answer the charge named in the warrant, the county court acquires jurisdiction to try and determine the cause.
[5] Upon conviction in the county court on a charge of misdemeanor, the defendant may appeal to the circuit court under section 6725 of the Code without giving bond, by remaining in custody as provided by statute, which presumably he did in this case. The judgment entry in the county court reciting the appeal and suspension of judgment awaiting the judgment of the circuit court was sufficient to give the circuit court jurisdiction of the cause, and, the defendant having remained in custody pending the appeal, the circuit court had jurisdiction of the person as effectually as if the defendant had entered into bond for his appearance. Perry’s Case, 17 Ala. App. 80, 81 South. 858, is not at all in point. In that case there was nothing to show the jurisdiction.
Whether the witness ICirkland was' a de jure officer is of no moment under the facts in this case. He was one of the parties engaged in undertaking the arrest of this defendant, and as such showed an interest in knowing his whereabouts, and Kirkland’s testimony indicates that he had been looking for the defendant since the night the whisky was found and the warrant issued.
Application overruled.