Court Opinion

ID: 9672529
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:56:33.279361+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:16.868623
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CATES, Presiding Judge
(dissenting).
I do not think that under our constitution the Legislature may pass, Pilate-like, its power to define a crime to an executive officer or body.1 State v. Vaughan, 30 Ala.App. 201, 4 So.2d 5. The Public Service Commission is a legislative arm empowered to make only findings of fact within the scope of a formula laid down by the Legislature. Ala.Digest, Constitutional Law, Key No. 60.
This case does not show a minor rule or regulation to fill an interstitial gap in a statute. See Parke v. Bradley, 204 Ala. 455, 86 So. 28. Delegation of the power to define crime would be the beginning of despotism.

. Our current session is about to make legal a 55 mile per hour speed limit. See Brown, 32 Ala.App. 246, 24 So.2d 450. The need of such a statute is an implied admission of a lack of law beforehand.