Court Opinion

ID: 9825527
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 13:17:58.846576+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:56.799806
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On Rehearing.
[6] The Attorney General moves the court to strike the application for rehearing filed in this cause, and assigns as ground therefor that the application does not comply with the requirements of Supreme Court rule 38 (77 South, vii), in that the brief accompanying-said application failed to have a certificate of counsel that a copy of the brief had been delivered to the opposing counsel within 15 days after the rendition of the judgment.
Rule 38 as amended and as set. out on page xiii of 198 Ala. (77 South, vii), provides that all applications for rehearing must be filed with the clerk of the court, accompanied by a brief for the applicant and a certificate that a copy of such brief has been delivered to the opposing counsel within 15 days after the rendition of judgment, whether such period extends beyond the term of court or not, and that no application shall be received or filed that is not presented within strict compliance with this rule. The application for rehearing does not comply with the rule, in that there is no certificate of counsel that a copy of the brief was delivered to the Attorney General, who under the law is the attorney of record in this court for the state in all cases where the state of Alabama is a party. This construction of the ruling finds support i'n the following cases: State ex rel. Attorney General, 185 Ala. 347, 64 South. 310; Ex parte Fred Locklear (7 Div. 168) 205 Ala. 236, 87 South. 712. It follows that the motion of the Attorney General must be granted.
However, the court ex mero motu has carefully considered this record in connection with the brief filed • by appellant’s counsel in connection with the application for rehearing, and after such consideration sees no good reason for changing its conclusions arrived at on the original submission.
The-motion to strike is granted.