Court Opinion

ID: 3224581
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 16:00:28.175803+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:01.056027
License: Public Domain

Appellant was convicted of the offense of violating the terms of an ordinance of the town of Hamilton prohibiting the possession of certain liquors. We will treat the assignments of error after the order in which they are argued by his counsel on this appeal.
The complaint filed in the circuit court was defective for failing to state the substance of the ordinance which was alleged to have been violated. Rosenberg v. City of Selma,168 Ala. 198, 52 So. 742. However, none of the grounds of demurrer filed took this point, and there was no error in overruling the demurrer to the complaint. It was not subject to any of the defects urged. Turner v. Town of Lineville, 2 Ala. App. 454,56 So. 603. Code 1923, § 1992.
The written charges, which were requested by defendant, and refused, were, in so far as they stated correct propositions of law, in our opinion, substantially covered by the oral charge of the court in connection with the written charges given at defendant's request. We think it made no difference whether the liquid in question was "suitable" for beverage purposes or not, if it was in fact used as a beverage, and if it was a liquid prohibited by law. For that matter, most of the liquids now giving basis for so many prosecutions for the violation of our prohibition statutes are not really "suitable" for beverage purposes.
The assignments of error not covered by what we have said above are insisted upon in argument only in the most cursory way, and we do not feel called upon to discuss them seriatim. Suffice to say that we have examined them carefully and are not persuaded that prejudicial error pervaded any of the rulings underlying same. The appellant appears to have been tried fairly, and the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.