Hunter v. State

BLOODWORTH, Justice.

This petition for writ of certiorari seeking review and reversal of a Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision was granted and submitted after oral argument. The decision below affirmed petitioner’s second degree murder conviction.

The basis for review is averred to be a “conflict” between that decision and this Court’s decision in Karr v. State, 100 Ala. 4, 14 So. 851 (1893), inter alia. We agree and reverse and remand.

Petitioner was first convicted in 1967 of murder in the second degree. The cause was reversed and remanded by the Court of Criminal Appeals, Hunter v. State, 48…