J.C.C. v. State

SEE, Justice.

J.C.C., a minor, petitioned this Court for the writ of certiorari to review a decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals. The Court of Criminal Appeals held that J.C.C.’s sufficiency-of-the-evidenee claim was not preserved because the trial court did not enter findings of fact and J.C.C. did not file a postjudgment motion to preserve his challenge. This case presents an issue of first impression — whether a written stipulation of facts in a juvenile delinquency adjudication may serve as “findings of fact” for purposes of Rule 52(b), Ala. R. Civ. P.,1 and thereby preserve for…