Case Title: Golden v. State

Citation: 103 So. 2d 62

Docket Number: 

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 1958-04-10T00:00:00Z

Document:
103 So. 2d 62 (1958)
Terrell Eugene GOLDEN
v.
STATE of Alabama.
3 Div. 833, 834.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
April 10, 1958.
Rehearing Denied June 5, 1958.
Robt. T. Milner, Robt. S. Milner, Holley, Milner & Holley, Wetumpka, for Golden.
John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Geo. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
GOODWYN, Justice.
Both appellant (Golden) and the State have filed petitions for certiorari to review and revise the judgment and decision of the Court of Appeals in the case of Golden v. State, Ala.App., 103 So. 2d 52. The Court of Appeals reversed the case on the ground that error was committed in separating the jury. The State seeks a review of that holding. Golden does not disagree with the reversal but here insists that there are other errors which should be rectified prior to another trial. There is precedent for petitions by both parties. Brasher v. State, 249 Ala. 96, 30 So. 2d 31, affirming Brasher v. State, 33 Ala.App. 13, 30 So. 2d 26.
Golden has filed a motion to strike the State's petition for certiorari and its brief *63 in support thereof on the ground that the State's brief was not served on his counsel within the time prescribed by the Revised Rules of the Supreme Court, specifically Rules 11, 39 and 44, Code 1940, Tit. 7 Appendix.
These rules provide, in pertinent part, as follows:
It is undisputed that the State's petition for certiorari was filed in the clerk's office on the last day of the prescribed time; that the State's brief was not actually delivered to Golden or his counsel within the prescribed time; and that copy of said brief was not deposited within the prescribed time "in United States post office or mail box." However, it appears that the State's brief was deposited within the prescribed time with the central mailing room at the State Capitol where mail from all state departments is processed. But the central mailing room is not a "United States post office or mail box."
In view of the very clear provision contained in Rule 44 that if service is by mail "it shall consist of depositing the same in a United States post office or mail box," we have no alternative but to grant Golden's motion to strike the State's petition for certiorari and brief filed in support thereof. See, Gambrell v. Bridges, 266 Ala. 302, 96 *64 So. 2d 182; Bruner v. State, 265 Ala. 357, 91 So. 2d 224.
It does not appear that the questions presented by Golden's petition will likely arise in the same manner on the retrial of the case. Accordingly, we pretermit consideration of them.
Motion to strike the State's petition for certiorari and brief in support thereof is granted.
Golden's petition for certiorari is denied.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and SIMPSON and COLEMAN, JJ., concur.