In Re Sollie

This case is before this court on a recommendation by the Judicial Commission that Vernon D. Sollie, Judge of the Southern Judicial Division of the Inferior Court System of St. Clair County be removed from office. The case proceeded under a judicial disciplinary system established by Amendment 317 to the Alabama Constitution of 1901. This constitutional amendment was repealed and replaced with different machinery and procedures by the new Judicial Article of the Constitution (Amendment 328 which was submitted to the people on December 18, 1973, and proclaimed ratified on December 27, 1973).…