Puryear v. State Ex Rel. Wade
Puryear v. State Ex Rel. Wade
Opinion of the Court
“In any case involving the validity of an ordinance of the city, tried before the recorder, the council may take an appeal, without bond, to the circuit court or court of like jurisdiction; and, in any case the defendant may take an appeal to *113 such court by giving bond with good and sufficient sureties, payable to tbe city, to be approved by the recorder or officer trying the case, conditioned to be void if the defendant appears from term to term of said court, until discharged by law, to answer said charge, but unless such bond be given within five days from the date of the judgment no appeal shall be allowed from such judgment,” etc.
The right of appeal from a conviction in a municipal court for a violation of an ordinance or by-law is the creature of statute (Town of Brighton v. Miles, 153 Ala. 673, 45 South. 160; State ex rel. Birmingham v. Fort, Judge, 12 Ala. App. 632, 67 South. 734); and it is conceded by counsel for appellee and well settled that the Constitution (Const. 1901, § 11) does not guarantee the right of trial by jury in trials for such violations. Costello v. Feagin, 162 Ala. 191, 50 South. 134; State ex rel. v. Fort, 164 Ala. 578, 51 South. 317. So the condition that a bond must be given in no way impinges the constitutional right of one so convicted. Brighton v. Miles, supra; Ex parte Reese, 112 Ala. 63, 21 South. 56.
The demurrer to the petition for mandamus should have been sustained, and the judgment of the criminal court will be reversed and a judgment here rendered, sustaining the demurrer, denying the writ and dismissing the petition.
Reversed and rendered.
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