Legal Opinion

Fuller v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided April 23, 1963No. 6 Div. 945Published

1Opinion of the Court

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

This appellant has been convicted of robbery and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of twenty years. In the trial court he filed a motion for leave to prosecute an appeal in forma pauperis and requesting that he be furnished with a free transcript of the evidence.

The trial judge declined to rule on the motion because it was “insufficient and incomplete.”

In Sanders v. State, Court of Appeals 152 So.2d 439,* a free transcript was sought. The Montgomery Circuit Court denied the request because the petition does not comply with law; also that Sanders has no…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
  2. Draper v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Birdsell v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1961
  4. Sanders v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1963

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