Court Opinion

ID: 7783382
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 21:17:12.157458+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:40:50.851267
License: Public Domain

I concur in Chief Justice Nabers's special concurrence. See Exparte Lewis, 811 So.2d 485, 490-91 (Ala. 2001) (See, J., dissenting) ("To the extent that Byrd [v. State, 763 So.2d 987
(Ala.Crim.App. 2000)] — and the line of similar cases — hold that failure of an indictment to allege an essential element of the charged offense is a per se jurisdictional defect, requiring that a conviction based on that indictment *Page 1062 
be set aside, I would overrule Byrd and that line of cases.").