Gandy v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals, which struck petitioner’s application for leave to seek a writ of error coram nobis without an opinion.

We have uniformly held that in the absence of an opinion by the Court of Appeals, we had nothing to review. Crawford v. State, 276 Ala. 98, 159 So.2d 457, and cases there cited. This rule does not preclude us from reviewing a decision of that court where a constitutional question is involved. Espey v. State, 263 Ala. 207, 82 So.2d 270; State v. Parrish, 242 Ala. 7, 5 So.2d 828.

Petitioner does allege constitutional…