Ex parte Hammonds

June 18, 1968, the former Court of Appeals entered an order of final dismissal of Hammonds’s appeal. The reasons appear in Hammonds, 44 Ala.App. 256, 206 So.2d 924.

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Now Hammonds’s counsel has filed a motion for reinstatement of the appeal in question. Among other things, counsel avers:

“ * * * dismissal of appeal without consideration upon its merits cures errors committed by the trial court without any basis in law.”

Whatever may be the ultimate subjective absolute truth revealed at the Awful Day of Final Judgment, its certitude alone cannot excuse a delay in a secular court. Even Moses…