EX PARTE BROOKS

3 Div. 952, 953.

133 So.2d 198 (1961)

Ex parte John D. BROOKS. Ex parte STATE of Alabama. In re John D. BROOKS v. STATE of Alabama (two cases).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 21, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Brooks, pro se.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Jerry L. Coe, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


LAWSON, Justice.

John D. Brooks, an inmate of Kilby Prison, applied to a Judge of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. The petition so presented was stricken on motion of the State.

Brooks appealed to the Court of Appeals, where the action of the Circuit Court was affirmed without consideration of the State's motion to strike the record and dismiss the appeal.

Brooks and the State each filed an application...

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