Ex parte State ex rel. Lyerly, 1 Div. 742
Decision Date | 06 December 1956 |
Docket Number | 1 Div. 742 |
Citation | 91 So.2d 233,38 Ala.App. 630 |
Parties | Ex parte STATE ex rel. Bill LYERLY, as Director Department of Public Safety. |
Court | Alabama Court of Appeals |
John Patterson, Atty. Gen., and Jas. W. Webb, Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.
Henderson F. Helt, Jr., Mobile, for respondent.
A petition for mandamus was filed in this court by Bill Lyerly, as Director of the Department of Public Safety, to compel Judge Robert T. Ervin, Jr., as a judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit, to vacate an order made by him overruling the motion of Lyerly to strike an appeal filed in the Circuit Court of Mobile County by one Robert Maness, seeking a restoration of his driver's license, the same having been suspended by Lyerly upon Maness' conviction in the Recorder's Court of the City of Mobile.
Section 68, Title 36, Code of Alabama 1940, provides in parts pertinent to this proceeding, as follows:
'The director of public safety shall forthwith revoke the license of any driver upon receiving a record of such driver's conviction of any of the following offenses, when such conviction has become final: [Here is set forth a number of such offenses, including driving while intoxicated]. * * *
'The director of public safety is hereby authorized to suspend the license of a driver without preliminary hearing upon a showing by court records or other sufficient evidence that the licensee: Has been charged with an offense for which mandatory revocation of license is required upon conviction. * * *
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