BAILEY v. ALABAMA

No. 300.

219 U.S. 219 (1911)

BAILEY v. STATE OF ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1911.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Fred S. Ball, Mr. Edward S. Watts and Mr. Daniel W. Troy for plaintiff in error, submitted.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Harr, with whom The Attorney General was on the brief, by leave of the court, on behalf of the United States as amicus curiae:

Mr. Alexander M. Garber, Attorney General of the State of Alabama, and Thomas W. Martin for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama, affirming a judgment of conviction in the Montgomery City Court. The statute, upon which the conviction was based, is assailed as in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States upon the ground that it deprived the plaintiff in error of his liberty...

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