Case Title: Sparks v. State

Citation: 119 So. 2d 600

Docket Number: 

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 1960-03-24T00:00:00Z

Document:
119 So. 2d 600 (1960)
Melvin SPARKS
v.
STATE of Alabama.
6 Div. 544.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
March 24, 1960.
Rehearing Denied April 21, 1960.
*601 Morel Montgomery, Birmingham, for petitioner.
MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Paul T. Gish, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., opposed.
MERRILL, Justice.
Petitioner pleaded guilty to assault and battery in two cases and was fined five dollars and costs and sentenced to 180 days in each case. He applied for and received probation, and the probation was later revoked. He appealed from this order to the Court of Appeals. That court held that an appeal did lie from an order revoking probation, but affirmed because there were no assignments of error. Review was sought here by certiorari.
The main part of the opinion of the Court of Appeals deals with whether an appeal will lie from an order revoking probation. This point was decided in favor of petitioner.
In determining the propriety vel non of issuing a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals, we only pass on the grounds on which the certiorari is sought. City of Gadsden v. Elrod, 250 Ala. 148, 33 So. 2d 270; Davenport-Harris Funeral Home v. Chandler, 264 Ala. 623, 88 So. 2d 878; Liberty National Life Insurance Co. v. Stringfellow, 265 Ala. 561, 92 So. 2d 927, and Burton v. State, 267 Ala. 354, 101 So. 2d 572.
The only two grounds on which certiorari is sought in this court are:
The Court of Appeals correctly held that assignments of error were necessary to present questions for review. Our denial of the writ, therefore, is limited to the last two paragraphs of the opinion of *602 the Court of Appeals, and we are not to be understood as approving the other part of the opinion not presented to us in the petition for writ of certiorari, that is, we do not decide that appeal is or is not the proper method to review an order revoking probation.
Writ denied.
SIMPSON, STAKELY and COLEMAN, JJ., concur.