Title: Ex Parte Moore
Citation: 493 So. 2d 988
Docket Number: N/A
State: Alabama
Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court
Date: June 20, 1986

493 So. 2d 988 (1986)
Ex parte Thomas Wayne MOORE.
(Re Thomas Wayne Moore v. State of Alabama).
85-829.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
June 20, 1986.
Andrew LaPlante, Bessemer, for petitioner.
Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., for respondent.
MADDOX, Justice.
In his petition for certiorari, the petitioner raises several questions and he claims that the Court of Criminal Appeals, by refusing to reverse his conviction, has rendered a decision which we should review. The Court of Criminal Appeals, 486 So. 2d 523, however, rendered its judgment in this case without writing an opinion, and petitioner has failed to comply with the requirements of Rule 39(k), Ala.R.App.P., which provides as follows:
When the Court of Criminal Appeals renders a decision without an opinion, a petitioner who wants this Court to review that court's judgment must, on application for rehearing in that court, "present any additional or corrected statement of facts and request that court to add or correct those facts in its opinion on rehearing." If the Court of Criminal Appeals renders no opinion, as in this case, petitioner may request the Court of Criminal Appeals to accept his version of the facts and the law. In other words, the petitioner could, in effect, ask the Court of Criminal Appeals to adopt an opinion which would be favorable to his position. Frequently, a petitioner in this Court will file a brief which contains his version of the facts and the law applicable to those facts, but this fails to comply with the requirement of Rule 39(k), and this Court has no alternative but to deny his petition. See, H. Henzel, Complying with Rule 39(k), A.R.A.P. (How to Succeed on "Cert"), 45 Ala.Law. 270 (1984).
*989 When we indicate that we are denying a writ in a "no opinion" case because petitioner has failed to comply with the requirements of Rule 39(k), this Court does not mean to suggest that petitioner would have won on the merits of his claim had he complied with the rule, only that this Court will not review the merits of his claim because of his failure to comply with the requirements of this Court's rules.
Because petitioner has failed to comply with Rule 39(k), we have no alternative but to deny his request that we review the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals.
WRIT DENIED.
TORBERT, C.J., and ALMON, BEATTY and HOUSTON, JJ., concur.