SCOPOLITES v. STATE

1 Div. 189.

277 So.2d 389 (1973)

James M. SCOPOLITES v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Conway, Mobile, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Richard F. Calhoun, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


CATES, Presiding Judge.

Possession of marijuana: sentence, eight years in the penitentiary, Code 1940, T. 22, § 256, as amended by Act 625, August 29, 1969.

I

In brief appellant urges us to declare Act 1191, September 13, 1969 unconstitutional.

We reject this contention for two reasons. First, because the question was not presented to the trial court. Second, because the Act, which assimilates into the circuit court the juvenile court...

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