Case ID: ala-app_41/html/0581-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CATES, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

141 So.2d 537
    Lamar WORKS v. STATE.
    3 Div. 116.
    Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    May 15, 1962.
    Lamar Works, pro se.
    MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Bernard F. Sykes, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John F. Ingram, Legal Research Aide, Montgomery, for the State.
   CATES, Judge.

Code 1940, T. 15, § 27, reads in part as follows:

“No court, or judge, on the return of a writ of habeas corpus, has authority to inquire into the regularity or justice of any order, judgment, decree, or process of any court legally constituted, * *

The warden of Kilby Prison, in his return to Works’s petition for habeas corpus, exhibited an indictment of Works for robbery and judgment entry showing his arraignment (with counsel), trial, verdict, adjudication of guilt, allocutus and sentence to twenty years imprisonment.

The Circuit Court of Montgomery County correctly remanded Works to the warden : its judgment is

Affirmed.