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Pendleton v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama
Jan 29, 1976
295 Ala. 327 (Ala. 1976)

Opinion

SC 1547.

January 29, 1976.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Jefferson County, Wallace Gibson, J.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., Montgomery, and Quentin Q. Brown, Jr., Birmingham, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State, petitioner.

J. Louis Wilkinson, Birmingham, for respondent.


The record in this case has been supplemented pursuant to a petition for writ of certiorari granted by this court and directed to the Circuit Court of Jefferson County; and, it now being made to appear that the words omitted in the transcript as filed in the Court of Criminal Appeals do appear in the original indictment, the record as supplemented is therefore returned to the Court of Criminal Appeals.

See: S.C. 1547 — Ex parte State of Alabama ex rel. Attorney General (In re: Eugene Bizell Pendleton, Jr. v. State, (Ms.), January 9, 1976, 295 Ala. 325, 329 So.2d 142.

The case was fully briefed and argued in the Court of Criminal Appeals upon original submission. Therefore, as provided by Rule 2(b), ARAP, the provisions of Rule 39(f) and (g), ARAP, permitting the filing of briefs and requests for oral argument after certiorari is granted by this court are suspended, and the petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals is hereby granted and the cause remanded to that court for review of the merits of the appeal based upon briefs filed on original submission and the entire record as supplemented.

WRIT GRANTED.

RULES SUSPENDED.

CAUSE REMANDED TO COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS.

HEFLIN, C. J., and MERRILL, MADDOX and JONES, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Pendleton v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama
Jan 29, 1976
295 Ala. 327 (Ala. 1976)
Case details for

Pendleton v. State

Case Details

Full title:In re Eugene Bizell PENDLETON, Jr. v. STATE. Ex parte STATE of Alabama ex…

Court:Supreme Court of Alabama

Date published: Jan 29, 1976

Citations

295 Ala. 327 (Ala. 1976)
329 So. 2d 144

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