IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALDWIN COUNTY, ALABAMA

CIRCUIT COURT                                      )                    Notice of Appeal

COUNTY OF BALDWIN                           )

STATE OF ALABAMA                              )                    Case number CC 2008 2146

                   Respondent                              )                    Case number CC 2008 2148

                                                                   )                    Case number CC 2008 2151

Olaf Olsen Childress                                    )                    Case number CC 2008 2150

22151 Toler Road                                        )

Silverhill, Alabama                                        )

                   Appellant                                  )

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Comes now the Appellant in the above cases to appeal the convictions, sentences and orders of Judge Harry Wilters of the Circuit Court of Baldwin County in the State of Alabama on the 3rd day of February 2009. This is also to confirm that, on the 5th day of February 2009, a timely handwritten Notice of Appeal was hand delivered by a Deputy to Judge Harry Wilters as prepared by said Appellant sitting in confinement at the Baldwin County Corrections Center. This appeal is based on numerous pre-trial and trial errors of law and facts. A Notice of Objections that was filed with the lower court is attached for the courts to review. The grounds for which this Appeal is founded are based upon the following:

01. Denial of Due Process

02. Failure to furnish proof of jurisdiction as demanded

03. Denial of the right to have a verified complaint filed against me

04. Denial of the right to be charged with a crime before being forced into a trial

05. Denial of the right to invoke common law

06. Falsely exercised jurisdiction based on the 1865 military occupation of this quondam Sovereign State of Alabama

07. Unconstitutional subjection and adherence to a de facto foreign government which claims its fraudulent 14th Amendment modified the Law of the Land in 1868

08. Forced recognition of unlawful Statutes, Codes and Acts in direct contradiction to the Law of the Land

09. Liberty and property taken without Due Process

10. Subjection to a false definition of Due Process

11. Subjection to a forced process under the fraudulent 14th Amendment instead of the law of the land

12. Forced seizure of my liberty and property without a warrant supported by oath

13. Forced seizure of my property without Due Process

14. Denial of appeal hearing before a jury for which Appellant had paid the Town of Silverhill, Alabama, $1,250

15. Subjection to double jeopardy by a new trial instead of the appeal hearing demanded and paid for by Appellant

16. Twice punished for the same charges while arguments by the Appellant in his interest were not allowed

17. Appellant was not permitted to question prospective jurors regarding their qualifications to sit in judgment

18. Appellant was not permitted to fully question a witness, nor to complete his opening and closing statements

1. The Appellant’s Claims against the Baldwin County Circuit Court

The trial Judge erred in going forward after objections were made against the absence of Due Process in its true and only meaning established in 1789 as thenceforth lawfully amended and known as the Law of the Land, inasmuch as the States at that time ratified the protective 5th Amendment whose original mandates then placed into the Constitution by the Sovereign States have never been altered.

The trial Judge erred in not proving jurisdiction once challenged.

The trial Judge erred in calling a trial over the objection that no verified complaint had been filed and no charge was before the Court since there was no complaint supported by oath to cause a summons from the Court to issue.

The trial Court erred for never issuing a summons since there was no verified complaint giving way for a summons to be issued.

The trial Court erred when perjuring its account that a plea was entered by the Appellant, as stated on the abstract of Court records. The Notice of Objections filed with the lower Court proves that the defendant never entered a plea, but objected to his rights being trespassed upon and waiving none of them at any time.

2. Questions before this Court

01. Did the trial Court err by denying Due Process seizure?

The Appellant reminds the Court that Due Process is an offspring of the Common Law, and that the Common Law is Due Process and must be made of use when not waived by an accused. See Hoke vs. Henderson 15 NC 15, 25 AM Dec. 677 (1857)

02. Is the Court not obligated to prove its jurisdiction once challenged?

Regardless of the many private motorists who choose to relinquish their right to travel public roads unmolested when Police Officers unconstitutionally detain them at Feudal Age roadblocks demanding “Show me your papers,” the paucity of Citizens when accused of such a putative crime as disobeying that illegal order who challenge the act’s legitimacy is of no consequence. This Appellant reminds the court of a case called Missouri vs. City of Independence wherein the Justice of the Supreme Court stated, “The mere good faith of assertion of power has been abolished.” Refusing to specifically answer questioned jurisdiction is therefore a denial of Due Process. Many Tyrants have arisen incrementally throughout the ages when travelers bowed further under each of their humiliatingly lowered yokes. The Court must explain its failure to maintain a republican form of government and protect each State against invasion when U.S. Border Police today fear getting charged with crimes themselves for using sufficient force to arrest illegal alien drug smugglers, which allows that invasion to enter relatively unmolested, while far from the Mexican border we, the People, become forcefully yanked out of our vehicles and thrown in jail; what purpose, indeed, if not the perpetuation of an unconstitutionally seated Court and Government.

03. Is it mandatory for the Court to have a verified complaint under oath before it can issue a summons and accept the charges claimed against an accused person otherwise to be tried merely upon an executive writ making allegations unsupported by oath or affirmation?

The Appellant reminds the Court that both the united States and the Alabama Constitutions forbid the seizure of any person without a warrant supported by oath or affirmation.

04. Is it not part of procedural Due Process that a person be first charged by a verified complaint supported by oath or affirmation?

The Appellant reminds the court that procedural Due Process absolutely demands a verified complaint. Due Process requires the proper writs (Due Writs) and all procedures must stand in exact order as prescribed by the Law of the Land. (See Due Process before the Civil War, 1910, 1911 Edition Harvard Law Review, Edwin Corwin; American Journal of Legal History Vol 19 (4) 1. (1975), Keith Jurows; 18 Calf. Law Rev. 583 (1930) Due Process before the 14th Amendment; Zylstra vs. Corp. of Charleston 1 bay (SC) 384; Calder vs. Bull 3 Dall US 386 (1798); and 2 Pet US 657, 182 Hoke vs. Henderson 15 NC 15 which should be compared with White vs. White 5 Barb NY 474 (1849). Furthermore, Due Process should be defined in its original meaning, to wit: “the Common Law and Statute law existing in the State at the adoption of our Constitution” (speaking of the South Carolina Constitution); see State vs. Simmons, 2 pears (SC), 761,767 (1844), since Alabama has the same Common Law as South Carolina and but one Common Law exists for all our States except Louisiana which entered the Confederacy under the Common Law of France, leaving us to understand then that State vs. Simmons applies in Alabama. The mere filing of a paper showing a so-called complaint is not sufficient to comply with the course or the procedures adopted to deal with a situation under Due Process as prescribed by both the Alabama Constitution and Alabama Statutes.

05. Is Due Process denied if an accused has not waived his right to the Common Law?

The Appellant reminds this Court that in Hoke vs. Henderson it was made clear that the Common Law must be rigorously observed, else there is no Due Process, lacking which, no lawful power ensues for taking life, liberty or property from a freeman.

06. Does merely asserting a claim that an Amendment has become properly ratified and therefore is part of the Constitution, without any further proof, render it the Law of the Land?

The Appellant reminds the Court that the Congressional Records are filled with proofs of military power having constituted the singular Agency used to “enforce” what is now called the 14th Amendment upon Alabama and the other Confederate States of America. Due Process played no part whatsoever at that time and instance in taking life, liberty and property from these States and their People while forcing the so-called 14th Amendment down the throats of States that had properly denied its imposture, causing the same to fail for lack of ratification.

07. Does the State of Alabama have power to enforce its Statutes, Codes and Acts even if not derived from the Constitution?

The Appellant reminds the Court that the only powers the State of Alabama has are derived from the Alabama Constitution. No man in this Country is so high that he is above the Law. No Officer of the Law may set that Law at defiance with impunity. All Officers of the Government, from highest to the lowest, are creatures of the Law and bound to obey it. Lee vs. United States.

08. Does the State of Alabama have the power to take life, liberty and property without Due Process?

09. Does the State of Alabama have the power to modify the definition of Due Process and force the new definition to be accepted by an accused?

10. Did the Government provide Due Process when taking life, liberty and property from the States and their people in 1861 and thereafter?

The Appellant reminds the Court that this is a very serious Due Process question long overdue, begging resolution and requiring a higher degree of qualitative and competent jurisprudence than exercised by Judge Ken Raines at Silverhill Municipal Court, and again by Judge Harry Wilters at Baldwin County Circuit Court, when merely rubber stamping a Police State action rather than responding to the objections herein respectfully presented. Since Due Process is strictly a virtue of the Court, then no other venue can answer a Due Process challenge. Such uncertainty cannot be lawfully resolved by shunting it elsewhere or classifying the same as “a political question.” Nor is the imposture avoided by any other means, since it is a problem of Due Process for the Court alone to decide.

11. Does the State of Alabama have the power to seize my person and my property and define that action as an arrest instead of a seizure?

The Appellant reminds the Court that both the united States Constitution and the Alabama Constitution protect the People from seizure, and neither of those documented texts contain the term arrest. Hence, the Police Departments have seized the Accused and his private motor vehicle, detaining in jail the former and in an impoundment under lock and key the latter without Due Process while calling it something else.

12. Did the Police Department of Silverhill, Alabama seize my property and my liberty without Due Process?

Dated this 26th day of February 2009

Respectfully Submitted,

 

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Olaf Olsen Childress, in propria persona, sui juris