State v. J.Z.S.

LONG, Presiding Judge.

The petitioner, J.Z.S., filed this petition for a writ of mandamus requesting that we direct Judge L. Scott Coogler, circuit judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, to transfer J.Z.S.’s case to the juvenile court. This case has a long and convoluted procedural history. In August 1998, J.Z.S. was indicted for leaving the scene of an accident that had resulted in injury to another person, a violation of § 32-10-2, Ala.Code 1975.1 J.Z.S. was 17 years old at the time *1222of the accident. J.Z.S. moved that his case in the circuit court be dismissed, arguing that the circuit court…