Martin v. State
Decision Date | 19 March 1964 |
Docket Number | 6 Div. 4 |
Citation | 167 So.2d 912,277 Ala. 153 |
Parties | Lee MARTIN v. STATE. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
The items listed for the circuit court to find under § 1 of said Act No. 526 are:
The following abstract questions of law upon which the judges of this court differ in said case are hereby certified to your Honorable Court under said § 88, supra:
1) If the trial court has failed or refused to ascertain and make the findings referred to in § 4 of said Act No. 526, is this reversible error?
2) If the Presiding Judge of this court acts under § 4 of said Act, must she make the same ascertainment and findings required of the trial judge?
3) Must there appeal affirmatively of record that the appellant was questioned as to the need for counsel to prosecute an appeal?
4) Since, under Code 1940, T. 15, § 389, original appeals must be reviewed without regard to the appellant's filing or not filing a brief, where no brief or other communication comes to the court, can it be presumed that the appellant has counsel on appeal if he hired his own lawyer at nisi prius? Would your answer to this question be different if he was represented in the trial court by court appointed counsel?
For your convenience the record in this court is forwarded to you with this request.
Dated this the 21st day of February, 1964.
Respectfully submitted,
ANNIE LOLA PRICE
Presiding Judge
AUBREY M. CATES, JR.
Judge
GEORGE C. JOHNSON
Judge
Certified Question from Court of Appeals
Re: Your questions propounded to this Court, February 24, 1964 with reference to § 4 of Act No. 526 of September 16, 1963.
While some of your questions are not pertinent to the pending case, to each question our answer is 'No'.
All the Justices concur in the foregoing; but LIVINGSTON, C. J., and LAWSON, GOODWYN and MERRILL, JJ., think the following explanation should be made.
We think it is a matter of common knowledge that Act No. 526, approved September 16, 1963, was enacted by the Legislature to enable the courts of this state to comply with recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States which relate to the trial of indigent defendants, among which are Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 83 S.Ct. 792, 9 L.Ed.2d 799, 93 A.L.R.2d 733, and Douglas v. California, 372 U.S. 353, 83 S.Ct. 814, 9 L.Ed.2d 811, both decided on March 18, 1963.
In Gideon it was held that the failure of a Florida trial court to appoint counsel to represent an indigent defendant charged with a non-capital felony was a denial of due process of law. In reversing the judgment of the Supreme Court of Florida, which had affirmed Gideon's conviction, the Supreme Court of the United States overruled its ...
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