Amend v. City of Mobile

PATTERSON, Judge.

The appellant, Jerome James Amend, appeals the trial court’s summary denial of his petition for writ of error coram nobis wherein he contests the validity of his 1984 conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol and his resulting sentence of sixty days’ incarceration, of which fifty days were suspended, and a fine of five hundred dollars. In his petition, Amend asserts that the circuit court did not have subject matter jurisdiction because (1) the original complaint filed in the municipal court did not allege a violation of any duly adopted municipal ordinance, and,…