Goulden v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

First degree forgery: sentence, twenty years. Code 1940, T. 14, §§ 199 & 207.

I

The appellant in brief asks us to emulate our decision in Pierce v. State, 52 Ala.App. 422, 293 So.2d 483 (1973), see also Ex parte State ex rel. Attorney General, 292 Ala. 745, 293 So.2d 489 (1974).

However, here there was no evidence before the trial judge which comes within the scope of Pate v. Robinson, 383 U.S. 375, 86 S.Ct. 836, 15 L.Ed.2d 815. Indeed, in brief appellant advises us that the State filed a certified copy of an order of the United States District Court for the Middle…