State ex rel. O.E.G. v. H.W.

This mandamus petition by the State, acting on the relation of O.E.G., presents only one legal question: Whether the Mobile County Juvenile Court, in a case in which the defendant had filed a notice of appeal to the circuit court, from a final judgment, had jurisdiction to “reconsider” or rehear its ruling that was the subject of the notice of appeal.

The State, claiming that the juvenile court had lost jurisdiction over the case once the appeal was taken from a final adjudication of paternity, petitioned the Court of Civil Appeals for a writ of mandamus directing the juvenile court to set…