Court Opinion

ID: 9658980
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 21:24:46.776903+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:02.654265
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MADDOX, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur that the writ should be denied. By concurring to deny the writ, I want to *795point out that writs of certiorari are frequently denied without any consideration of the merits. Haden v. Olan Mills, Inc., 273 Ala. 129, 135 So.2d 388 (1961). A denial of certiorari should never be considered as an expression by the reviewing court on the merits of the controversy. See Hamilton Brown Shoe Co. v. Wolf Brothers, 240 U.S. 251, 36 S.Ct. 269, 60 L.Ed. 629 (1916). I do not desire to be understood as approving or disapproving the language used, or the statements of law contained in the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals. See Cooper v. State, 287 Ala. 728, 252 So.2d 108 (1971).
HEFLIN, C. J., concurs.