Essex v. State
Citation | 227 So.2d 138,45 Ala.App. 141 |
Decision Date | 19 August 1969 |
Docket Number | 2 Div. 7 |
Parties | William ESSEX, Jr. v. STATE. |
Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
L. M. Lowrey, Jr., Linden, for appellant.
MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., for the State.
On Rehearing
On rehearing Essex asks the meaning our cryptic 'Affirmed (No Op.),' pronounced August 19, 1969 on his coram nobis appeal. 'Affirm,' according to Black's Law Dictionary, means:
We affirmed the judgment of the Marengo Circuit Court because of Supreme Court Rule 50, which reads:
Also, we note that Essex misapprehends the interpretation of Code 1940, T. 45, § 32, as amended, which reads in part as follows:
'When a convict is sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary on two or more convictions, unless it is specifically ordered in the judgment entry that such sentences be served concurrently, such sentences shall be cumulative, and shall be served consecutively; * * *'
The original sentences are not in the record before us. However, counsel at the coram nobis hearing recited four sentences, each for eighteen years. After thirty days the circuit court loses all power over its judgments. Code 1940, T. 13, § 119. See Ex parte Merkes, 43 Ala.App. 640, 198 So.2d 789; Crook v. State, 44 Ala.App. 83, 203 So.2d 138.
On original deliverance we gave no opinion because we consider the appeal was nothing more than lip service to the didactic insistence of Federal Courts that Alabama convicts must exhaust their well-nigh, nonexistent state court post conviction remedy of coram nobis. Also, Code 1940, T. 13, § 66 provides in part:
'* * * The justices of the supreme court and the judges of the court of appeals shall not be required to write opinions in cases where the decisions merely reaffirm previous decisions, or relate to...
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