Opinion

Childs v. State

  • 16 Ala. App. 392
  • 78 So. 308
  • 1918 Ala. App. LEXIS 70
Court
Alabama Court of Appeals
Filed
Mar 12, 1918
Status
Published
Author
Sampord
On the bench
Sampord
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 91.4%

The opinion

SAMPORD, J.

The rules and regulations authorized to be enacted by. the state live stock sanitary board, when adopted, are in the nature of ordinances, and as such must

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be pleaded and proved before the courts will permit them to become the basis for a criminal prosecution. We tried to give the correct rule in Powell v. State, 75 South. 269 ,

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and while that part of the opinion was dictum in that ease, we adhere to it here. The demurrer should have been sustained.

The judgment is reversed, and the cause is remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

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Ante, p. 63.

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