Legal Opinion

Hill v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided March 1, 2002No. CR-01-0304Published

1Opinion of the Court

WISE, Judge.

James Thomas Hill appeals from the circuit court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief, filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., in which he attacked his conviction for rape in the first degree.

In August 1999, Hill entered a plea of guilty to rape in the first degree. Although Hill had initially been indicted for rape in the first degree, for burglary in the first degree because he was armed with a deadly weapon, for burglary in the first degree because he caused physical injury, *746and for intimidating a witness (C.R.32-33), the State agreed to nol-pros all counts…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Ireland v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1971
  2. Martin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1996
  3. Burns v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2000

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