Tarver v. State

The appellant, Robert Lee Tarver, Jr., appeals from the circuit court's dismissal of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P. Tarver is scheduled to be executed in Alabama's electric chair on February 4, 2000.

In 1985, Tarver was convicted of capital murder for murdering Hugh Sims Kite during the course of committing a robbery. He was sentenced to death by electrocution and his conviction and sentence were affirmed on direct appeal. Tarver v. State,500 So.2d 1232 (Ala.Cr.App.), aff'd, 500 So.2d 1256 (Ala. 1986), cert. denied, 482 U.S. 920 (1987). In 1987,…