Court Opinion

ID: 9671221
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:33:05.742472+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:08.821041
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LAWSON, Justice
(concurring specially.
I do not concur in the holding of the court relative to the constitutional questions to which it has written.
It is obvious that the appellant sought to avoid a determination by the court as to his sanity at the time of the hearing and although that question may not have been technically within the pleadings in the case, yet it affirmatively appears from the judgment that the trial court in concluding that appellant should not be discharged gave consideration to the return of the Director of the Veterans Hospital at Tuskegee to the effect that appellant’s mental condition was such that he should not be discharged. In view of that posture of the case, I concur in the affirmance of the judgment of the trial court on the authority of Moses v. Tarwater, 257 Ala. 361, 58 So.2d 757.
HEFLIN, C. J., and BLOODWORTH and MADDOX, JJ., concur in the foregoing special concurrence of LAWSON, J.