Billingsley v. State

The majority affirms Cornelius Antoine Billingsley’s guilty-plea conviction for failure to register as a sex offender, a violation of § 13A-11-200, Ala.Code 1975. I concur only in the result reached in the Court’s opinion for the same reasons I stated in my special writings in Ankrom v. State, [Ms. CR-09-1148, August 26, 2011] - So.3d - (Ala.Crim.App.2011) (Welch, P.J., concurring in the result and dissenting in part), and in Hicks v. State, [Ms. CR-09-0642, Nov. 4, 2011] — So.3d - (Ala.Crim.App.2011) (Welch, P.J., concurring in the result). I believe that the indictment here, like the…