Cooke v. State

As will appear this is the second petition in this case. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of petitioner's conviction on June 21, 1921, 93 So. 86;¹ and overruled application for rehearing on November 15, 1921. Petition (the first) for certiorari to the Court of Appeals was denied. The petitioner thereupon filed an application for rehearing of the Supreme Court's denial of his petition for certiorari. Pending that application for rehearing the judgment on the petition for certiorari and the submission on petition for certiorari were set aside, the proceeding restored to the docket of the Supreme Court, the petition for certiorari withdrawn, and the Court of Appeals restored the cause to the status of a rehearing on its rehearing docket. On March 7, 1922, the Court of Appeals again overruled the application for rehearing without other opinion deliverance than that considered on the first petition for certiorari. The entire elimination from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the proceeding instituted by the first petition for certiorari and the perfected restoration of the appellant's (there) application for rehearing to that court's rehearing docket and the subsequent act of the Court of Appeals in overruling the application for rehearing re-established the status, as to rehearing and adverse ruling thereon, which under Supreme Court rule 42 (198 Ala. xiv, 77 So. vii) entitled petitioner to present his present (second) petition for certiorari; the activities of this court and of the Court of Appeals effecting to restore the matter to an original status in respect of petitioner's right seasonably (after the last ruling by the Court of Appeals) to apply here for certiorari to the Court of Appeals. Accordingly, the motion of the state to strike the present petition is overruled. The case of Ex parte Shirey,206 Ala. 167, 90 So. 75, involved materially different considerations, and hence is without bearing here.

Upon reconsideration of the matters complained of, this court remains convinced that error in the treatment of petitioner's appeal by the Court of Appeals cannot be affirmed by this court. The petition for certiorari is denied.

Writ denied.

ANDERSON, C. J., and SOMERVILLE and THOMAS, JJ., concur.

¹ 18 Ala. App. 416.