Supreme Court of Alabama, 1974

Birmingham v. Evans

Birmingham v. Evans
Supreme Court of Alabama · Decided September 12, 1974 · McCall, Heflin, Coleman, Bloodworth, Jones
300 So. 2d 401; 293 Ala. 136; 1974 Ala. LEXIS 932 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Birmingham v. Evans

Opinion

McCALL, Justice.

In. view of the holdings in Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104, 92 S.Ct. 1953, 32 L.Ed2d 584 (1972), Walker v. Dillard, D. C., 363 F.Supp. 921 (1973), and Manns v. Virginia, 213 Va. 322, 191 S.E.2d 810 (1972), all decided since Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145, 88 S.Ct. 1444, 20 L.Ed.2d 491, rehearing denied 392 U.S. 947, 88 S.Ct. 2270, 20 L.Ed.2d 1412, (1968), we reaffirm the position taken by this court, holding that a jury trial should not be required in a municipal court or other court from which an appeal can be taken as a-matter of right to the circuit court or other court of similar jurisdiction, where the defendant can have a trial de novo before a jury.

Petition of Laura Birmingham for certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that court in Birmingham v. Evans, 53 Ala.App. 358, 300 So.2d 396, is denied.

Writ denied.

HEFLIN, C. J., and COLEMAN, BLOODWORTH and JONES, JJ., concur.

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