Court Opinion

ID: 9667363
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:43:50.50157+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:37.356163
License: Public Domain

MADDOX, Justice
(dissenting).
I must respectfully dissent. The case of Robertson v. State, 20 Ala.App. 514, 104 So. 561 (1924), relied on by the majority was not reviewed by this Court.
I believe the whole purpose of granting the Court of Criminal Appeals authority to issue remedial writs was for the purpose of giving to that court a general superintendence and control of jurisdiction inferior to it. The Court of Criminal Appeals only has appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases. I think the statute [Tit. 13, § 111(4)] limits the Court of Criminal Appeals to the issuance of remedial writs in those matters over which it has exclusive jurisdiction.
I believe that the Robertson case was incorrectly decided. This Court has jurisdiction to issue writs to inferior jurisdictions including the Courts of Appeals. Section 140, Constitution of Alabama, 1901. In my opinion, the Courts of Appeals should be and are limited to issuing extraordinary writs in those cases over which they have exclusive appellate jurisdiction.
HEFLIN, C. J., concurs.