Supreme Court of Alabama December 15, 1881 (Summers v. State)

STONE, J.

TJnder the act “ To regulate the trial of misdemeanors in Jackson county,” approved February 9th, 1881 (Pamph. Acts, 232), the judge of the County Court was authorized to hear counsel and decide the present cause without a jury, unless the defendant demanded a jury. The defendant waived his fight of trial by jury, which waiver was entered of record. Connelly v. The State, 60 Ala. 89.