State by and Through Huguley v. Samuels

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is a paternity case.

The juvenile court rendered and entered a final judgment on October 14, 1983, which adjudicated that the defendant was not the father of a certain child. Fourteen days later, on October 28, 1983, a notice of appeal to the circuit court was filed on behalf of the state. The defendant moved to dismiss the appeal as not having been filed within ten days from the rendition of the final judgment, as was then required by § 26-12-8, Ala.Code (1975).1 The circuit court granted the defendant's motion and dismissed the state’s appeal…