Ex Parte Wright

We granted the defendant's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision in Wright v.City of Montgomery, 477 So.2d 489 (Ala.Crim.App. 1985), which is in conflict with a prior decision of our former Court of Appeals, Trawick v. City of Birmingham, 23 Ala. App. 308, 125 So. 211 (1929). In Trawick, the Court of Appeals ruled that a defendant who was tried and convicted in a municipal court for speeding could not subsequently be prosecuted for driving while intoxicated, both offenses being based on the same set of facts. In Wright the court declared that…