Pennington v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Pennington was convicted of theft in the first degree and sentenced, under the Habitual Felony Offenders Act, to life imprisonment. This Court affirmed the conviction in Pennington v. State, 421 So.2d 1361 (Ala.Cr.App.1982).

On January 9, 1984, Pennington petitioned the Elmore Circuit Court for a writ of habeas corpus on the following grounds: denial of effective assistance of counsel; defective indictment; failure to qualify the jury properly; prejudicial pretrial publicity; admission of prejudicial photographs; unconstitutional search and seizure of evidence;…