Ex parte State
| Decision Date | 06 October 1924 |
| Docket Number | 6 Div. 267. |
| Parties | EX PARTE STATE. v. STATE. WELLS |
| Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Certiorari to Court of Appeals.
Harwell G. Davis, Atty. Gen., and Jim Davis, Sol. Tenth Circuit, of Birmingham, for petitioner.
John W. Altman and J. K. Taylor, both of Birmingham, opposed.
James Walter Wells was convicted of an offense and appealed to the Court of Appeals, and the judgment of conviction being there reversed, the state petitions for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that court in the case of Wells v. State, 101 So. 624.
Writ denied.
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