Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Taylor

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided September 10, 1993No. 1920698Published

1Opinion of the Court

636 So.2d 1246 (1993)

Ex parte Thomas Edward TAYLOR.

(Re Eddie Taylor

v.

State).

1920698.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 10, 1993.

William J. Baxley and Randy James of Baxley, Dillard, Dauphin & McKnight, Birmingham, for petitioner.

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., and Cecil G. Brendle, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

SHORES, Justice.

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2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Morissette v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
  2. United States v. BalintSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
  3. Shevlin-Carpenter Co. v. MinnesotaSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  4. People v. . KiblerNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
  5. Commonwealth v. MixerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910

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