Ferguson v. State

This matter points up the wisdom of the dissent filed by our Chief Justice and the eminent Associate Justice James S. Coleman, Jr., in Hadley v. State, 288 Ala. 293, 259 So.2d 853.

I wholeheartedly concur and file this dissent reiterating what they so masterfully said but minus the ability of their eloquence.

While I too, agree that indigents should be given an equal measure of justice and no less, it certainly smacks of inequality when one who is able to employ counsel is denied the right to perfect his appeal because the time specified for filing the transcript was not strictly adhered to,…