Howard v. State

BOWEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for post-conviction relief.

The appellant, Conny Howard, was convicted of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to imprisonment for life without parole as a habitual felony offender in July 1990. That conviction was affirmed by this Court in an unpublished memorandum opinion issued March 15, 1991. See Howard v. State, 579 So.2d 711 (Ala.Cr.App.1991) (Table).

The petition challenging that conviction alleges the following grounds: 1) ineffective assistance of trial counsel; 2) the trial court was without jurisdiction because the…