Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama August 19, 1969, 2 Div. 7. (Essex v. State)

On Rehearing

CATES, Judge.

On rehearing Essex asks the meaning our cryptic “Affirmed (No Op.),” pronounced August 19, 1969 on his coram nobis appeal. “Affirm,” according to Black’s Law Dictionary, means:

“In the practice of appellate courts, to affirm a judgment, decree, or order, is to declare that it is valid and right, and must stand as rendered below; to ratify and reassert it; to concur in