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261 Ala. 373

Johnson v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided August 30, 1954

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1954-08-30

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““This court will not * * * receive or consider an application for the writ of cei'tiorari * * * for the purpose of reviewing or revising any opinion or decision of the court of appeals, * * *, unless it appears upon the face of the application therefor that application has been made to said court of appeals for a rehearing of the point or decision complained of, and that said application had been decided adversely to the movant, and the application to this court must be filed with the clerk of this court within fifteen days after the action of said court of appeals upon the said application for rehearing. * * * Supreme Court Rule 39, Title 7, Code of Ala.1940, as amended.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Duncan v. State

Relies on Lane v. McFadyen · Troup v. State · Burch v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1954-08-30

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1982

16 state decisions

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GOODWYN, Justice.

¶1Petition for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the decision of that court in the case of Johnson v. State, 37 Ala.App. 650, 74 So.2d 506.

¶2We have no alternative but to strike the petition. In the first place, it shows on its face that it was filed with the clerk of this court more than fifteen days after the Court *374of Appeals overruled petitioner’s application for rehearing. Secondly, no brief accompanied the petition. Rule 44 of the Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court, as amended, Code 1940, Tit. 7, Appendix, Cum.Pocket Part, provides that “the application to this court must be filed with the clerk of the supreme court within fifteen days after the action of said court of appeals upon the said application for rehearing”, and further provides that the application for certiorari “must be accompanied by a brief pointing out and arguing the point or decision sought to be revised.” We have held that compliance with this rule is mandatory and jurisdictional. Dawson v. State, 259 Ala. 205, 66 So.2d 568; Oliver v. State, 256 Ala. 295, 54 So.2d 618; Burch v. State, 249 Ala. 72, 29 So.2d 425. We have also held that placing the application and briefs in the mail within the prescribed period is not a compliance with the rule. Troup v. State, 248 Ala. 143, 144, 26 So.2d 622. Accordingly, the petition is due to be, and is, stricken.

¶3Petition stricken.

LIVINGSTON, C. J., and SIMPSON and CLAYTON, JJ., concur.
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