Morrow v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “As stated in In re State ex rel. Attorney General, 185 Ala. 347, 349 , 64 So. 310, 311 , `Manifestly the posting of [a petition], properly addressed, is not a compliance with the rule. It must be filed within the period stipulated. The mail must and could only be the agent or agency of the party applying [for the certiorari]. If there be delay in the transmission of the application by the mail, however free from fault or negligence the applicant may have been, it cannot be said that he had complied with this * * * rule. In mailing or otherwise transmitting the application, the chance of miscarriage or delay is a contingency, the happening of which the applicant must assume. * * * [It] cannot be affirmed that seasonable, proper posting answers the prescription of the rule.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tipton v. Tipton