Court Opinion

ID: 9938643
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 19:03:39.589806+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:16.355908
License: Public Domain

In brief in support of her application for rehearing the appellant says:
 Merrell now for the first time contends in her application for rehearing that the Alabama wrongful death statute is unconstitutional for being in violation of the guarantee to the citizens of each state of the United States in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America which provides in substance that no state shall deprive any person of property without due process of law nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. *Page 498
The appellant candidly admits that she did not attack the constitutionality of the wrongful death statute in the trial court nor in this Court on original submission, and acknowledges that as a general rule, this Court will not decide the constitutionality of a state statute when the issue is raised for the first time in the appellate court. Riley v.Smyer, 265 Ala. 475, 91 So.2d 820 (1957). She simply asks us to make an exception to that rule in this case. We decline to do so. The rule is an ancient one, founded on sound reasoning.Cooper v. Green, 359 So.2d 377 (Ala. 1978).
OPINION EXTENDED; APPLICATION FOR REHEARING OVERRULED.
TORBERT, C.J., and MADDOX, JONES and BEATTY, JJ., concur.