David v. State

Gerald David appeals from the denial of two postconviction petitions, both filed in the Circuit Court of Lee County, Alabama, each seeking to attack a conviction for robbery, which conviction took place, it is alleged, on April 29, 1981. The circuit court denied both petitions without conducting a hearing on either of them.

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The first petition in this record was a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, which sought to challenge in state court the alleged "ineffective assistance of counsel" rendered at the time of the trial in the aforesaid robbery case. In denying the habeas corpus petition…