Supreme Court of Alabama January 29, 1981, 79-671 (Gunter v. Kiker)

EMBRY, Justice.

This appeal by Annie Laurie Gunter as Treasurer of the State of Alabama and Colonel Jerry Shoemaker, as Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, is from a declaratory judgment interpreting Code 1975, § 12-19-22(b): “(b) In all cases filed prior to January 16,1977, in the circuit court or courts abolished by Acts 1975, No.