Case Title: Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd. v. Taylor

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State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 1976-10-29T00:00:00Z

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339 So. 2d 66 (1976)
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD
v.
Sam TAYLOR, as Judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.
SC 1914.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
October 29, 1976.
*67 William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and C. Lawson Little, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State ABC Bd.
Clyde A. Smith, Montgomery, for appellee.
JONES, Justice.
This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County denying the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board's Petition for a Writ of Mandamus to Judge Sam Taylor, Judge of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. We set forth the order appealed from in haec verba:
The State acknowledges that an appeal will not lie on behalf of the State to review Judge Taylor's ruling. The threshold issue, then, is whether the State of Alabama may seek appellate review of an adverse ruling in criminal proceedings via petition for writ of mandamus. The trial Court found that, because all parties were before the Court and Judge Taylor exercised his jurisdiction to determine the issue, mandamus would not lie to require Judge Taylor to reverse his position. We agree.
In the exercise of its supervisory power, the appellate courts may issue writs *68 of mandamus to lower courts to compel the latter to entertain and exercise the jurisdiction entrusted to them, to correct any abuse of jurisdiction, and to enforce the performance by them of purely ministerial duties. But petitions for writs of mandamus cannot be substituted for appeal to review adverse legal rulings of lower courts. See Alabama Digest, Mandamus.
We affirm.
AFFIRMED.
HEFLIN, C. J., and BLOODWORTH, ALMON and EMBRY, JJ., concur.