Title: Ex Parte Cruse
Citation: 474 So. 2d 109
Docket Number: N/A
State: Alabama
Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court
Date: May 10, 1985

474 So. 2d 109 (1985)
Ex parte John Anthony CRUSE.
(Re: John Anthony Cruse v. State of Alabama).
83-642.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
May 10, 1985.
Thomas M. Haas and James M. Byrd, Mobile, for petitioner.
Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Gerrilyn V. Grant, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
EMBRY, Justice.
This court issued the writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals, 474 So. 2d 106, in order to review that court's affirmance of the trial court's denial of petitioner's petition for the writ of error coram nobis. We reverse.
For an understanding of the issues here to be examined we set out pertinent portions of petitioner's petition for writ of error coram nobis:
The record shows that at the transfer hearing evidence was heard solely concerning the nature of the offenses charged and the involvement of petitioner. No study or report by Probation Services of the six factors required by Code 1975, § 12-15-34(d), was offered, or admitted into evidence, or considered by the juvenile court at the hearing. The order of transfer recites:
Petitioner sustained his burden of proof of the allegations of his petition. The decision of counsel appointed by the juvenile court not to appeal the transfer order, without Cruse's knowledge, consent, or approval, denied him the constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel at a critical stage in the proceedings against him. Wainwright v. Simpson, 360 F.2d 307 (5th Cir.1966). The record is very clear about this. Court appointed counsel (at the juvenile court stage) for Cruse testified at the hearing on the petition for writ of error coram nobis:
The inadequacy of the transfer order alone, by its failure to fulfill the requirements of Code 1975, § 12-15-34(d), would have warranted reversal on appeal. Kent v. United States, 383 U.S. 541, 86 S. Ct. 1045, 16 L. Ed. 2d 84 (1966); Ray v. State, 435 So. 2d 53 (Ala.1983); cf. Mayne v. State, 416 So. 2d 741 (Ala.1982).
For the stated reasons, the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals is hereby reversed and this case is remanded to that court for action by it consistent with this opinion.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
MADDOX, FAULKNER, JONES, ALMON, SHORES, BEATTY and ADAMS, JJ., concur.
TORBERT, C.J., concurs in the result.