Dunkins v. State

The appellant was convicted of the capital offense of rape when the victim is intentionally killed and sentenced to death by electrocution. This court affirmed his conviction on appeal, as did the Alabama Supreme Court. Dunkins v. State,437 So.2d 1349 (Ala.Crim.App.), affirmed, 437 So.2d 1356 (Ala. 1983). A petition for writ of certiorari to the Alabama Supreme Court was denied without opinion by United States Supreme Court on February 21, 1984. Dunkins v. Alabama,465 U.S. 1051, 104 S.Ct. 1329, 79 L.Ed.2d 724 (1984).

The appellant filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis before the trial…