In Re Ashworth

Hon. Virgis M. Ashworth, a circuit judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit has filed a petition with this court to have a judicial determination as to thejjrior service time to which he is entitled to be credited as a basis for retirement status under the provisions of the Judicial Retirement Act passed by the 1973 general session of the Alabama Legislature, which Act was approved by the Governor on 18 September 1973 as Act No. 1163.

The prior service for which Judge Ash-worth has claimed credit is as follows:

Deputy Solicitor for- Bibb County, Alabama, from 1 October 1942 to 1 October 1945 — 3…