the Alabama Supreme Court recently noted in Ex parte Seymour, 946 So.2d 536 (Ala.2006): “The language ‘jurisdiction to render judgment or impose sentence’ refers to the court’s jurisdiction over the subject matter, as opposed to the person. Although a court must have both personal jurisdiction and subject-matter jurisdiction in an action, Woolf v. McGaugh, 175 Ala. 299, 303, 57 So. 754, 755 (1911), defects in personal jurisdiction are waived if they are not raised before trial. City of Dothan v. Holloway, 501 So.2d 1136, 1139 (Ala.1986).” 946 So.2d at 537 n. 3. In Finney v. State, this Court considered the validity of an indictment that omitted the defendant’s name from a count contained in the indictment. In finding that the defect was not fatal, we stated: “Although we h im.App.1974) (<HOLDING>). “... Therefore, the omission of Fin-ney’s
holding that in a military criminal trial the governments use of classified information without permitting the defendant or his lawyers to view the information did not violate the defendants due process rights holding that information was not fatally defective because while defendants name did not appear in the charging part of the information it did clearly appear in the caption and in the verification of the charge by the district attorney holding that a fax requesting employment information and verification did not convey information regarding a debt but also noting that the senders name and logo did not make explicit that the request was from a debt collector holding that the failure to properly caption and verify a petition did not affect the substantial rights of the parties holding that although the social security number in the information and the social security numbers in the previous convictions did not match the rest of the identifying information  the first and last name and date of birth  did match and was sufficient to establish the defendants identity particularly in light of the fact that the defendant did not claim he was not the individual named in the previous convictions