Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Keene

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 16, 1963No. 6 Div. 886PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an original petition for certiorari, complaining of a judgment of the circuit court wherein the court denied petitioner’s application for writ of error coram nobis.

This court has entertained appeals from judgments denying petitions for writ of error coram nobis. Edwards v. State, 274 Ala. 569, 150 So.2d 710; Thomas v. State, 274 Ala. 531, 150 So.2d 387; Smith v. State, 245 Ala. 161, 16 So.2d 315.

Certiorari does not lie when the remedy by appeal is available. Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Christian, 82 Ala. 307, 1 So. 121; Ex parte Dickens, 162 Ala. 272, 50 So. 218;…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Ex parte DickensSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
  2. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1944
  3. Thomas v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963
  4. Edwards v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963
  5. Alabama Great Southern R. R. v. ChristianSupreme Court of Alabama · 1886

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Cecal Bell v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
  2. Julius Hairston v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
  3. Queor v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1965
  4. Blauvelt v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1964
  5. Crawford v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966

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