Lazarte v. City of Mountain Brook

MADDOX, Justice.

Jorge A. Lazarte filed his petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals and the writ was granted on February 16, 1971.

On October 6, 1970, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Petitioner’s judgment of conviction in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, 248 So.2d 148. Lazarte argues here that the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals is inconsistent with a prior decision of this Court on the subject of quotient verdicts.

We affirm the Court of Criminal Appeals, but point out one sentence in the opinion of that court which could be misleading.…