Knight v. State

The appellant, James Sheridan Knight, appeals from the summary dismissal of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition. The record shows that the petition attacks his convictions in separate proceedings, CC-91-2270 and CC-91-2274. Paragraph (3) to the form attached as an appendix to Rule 32 states that "[o]nly the judgments entered in a single trial may be challenged in a particular petition." See also Bryant v. State, 565 So.2d 290 (Ala.Cr.App. 1990) (quoting, with approval, the same provision in the appendix to Rule 20, Ala.R.Crim.P.Temp., which was the predecessor to Rule 32). Consequently, we…