Title: Ex parte Randall Glass. PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS (In re: Randall Glass v. City of Dothan Personnel Board)

State: alabama

Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court

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REL:01/05/07expartejackiesuewoodallv.stateofalabama
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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
OCTOBER TERM, 2006-2007
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1050389
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Ex parte State of Alabama
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
(In re:  State of Alabama
v.
Jackie Sue Woodall)
(Morgan Circuit Court, CC-04-641;
Court of Criminal Appeals, CR-04-1599)
BOLIN, Justice.
1050389
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We granted the State's petition for certiorari review of
the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision dismissing the State's
pretrial appeal from an order of the trial court granting
Jackie Sue Woodall's motion to dismiss count I of the
indictment against her. State v. Woodall, [Ms. CR-04-1599,
November 23, 2005]     So. 2d     (Ala. Crim. App. 2005). The
issue presented in this case is the same issue addressed in
State v. Wilson, [Ms. 1050390, June 23, 2006]     So. 2d   
(Ala. 2006), a case involving a codefendant of Woodall's and
the same facts as those here: Whether the State's appeal was
timely filed as required by Rule 15.7(b), Ala. R. Crim. P.,
thereby invoking the original appellate jurisdiction of the
Court of Criminal Appeals. In State v. Wilson we held that the
notice of appeal, filed three days before the trial court
entered its order dismissing count I of Wilson's indictment,
was timely. Because the facts presented here are the same as
those in State v. Wilson, the rationale in that case controls
our decision. Accordingly, the judgment is reversed and the
cause is remanded on the authority of State v. Wilson.  
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Nabers, C.J., and See, Lyons, Harwood, Woodall, Stuart,
Smith, and Parker, JJ., concur.