HOLCOMBE v. PIERCE

1 Div. 394.

43 So.2d 640 (1949)

HOLCOMBE, Sheriff, v. PIERCE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 22, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., and M. Roland Nachman, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Outlaw, Seale & Kilborn, Mobile, for appellee.


FOSTER, Justice.

This case comes to us on appeal from a final declaratory judgment of the Circuit Court, in Equity, of Mobile County, wherein that court held that Act No. 199 of the Legislature of 1949, approved July 8, 1949, is unconstitutional insofar as it undertakes to amend section 201, Title 15 of the 1940 Code of Alabama.

The particular ground upon which this result was reached is that it violates section 45 of the Constitution, for that such amendment...

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