31 Ala. App. 308 - Crooks v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Under the governing Statute, the decisions of this court must conform to the decisions of the Supreme Court. We, therefore, hold that the initial affidavit and complaint in the county court was void; being void, no conviction upon said affidavit and complaint can be had in any court; and while this controlling point of decision has not been adverted to in briefs of respective counsel, it is the law that this court must take notice of the fact ex mero motu.” (p. 309.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Minor

2. “[A] blanket charge of violation of the prohibition law of Alabama as it now exists does not designate any distinct or specific offense by name or as known in common parlance. It is equally applicable to any one of numerous distinct offenses , some misdemeanors, some felonies, each depending on its own state of facts. A charge of violating the law of the road , or the public health laws, would be equally specific. We must, therefore, hold the affidavit void.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 491 So. 2d 1091 - Corum v. City of Huntsville