Legal Opinion
Yeomans v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided March 29, 2013No. CR-10-0095PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOINER, Judge.
James Donald Yeomans, an inmate on death row at Holman Correctional Facility, *1023appeals the Geneva Circuit Court’s dismissal of his petition for postconviction relief under Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P. We affirm in part and remand with instructions.
Facts and Procedural History ■
In 2001, Yeomans was convicted-of four counts of capital murder for killing his wife, Julie Ann Yeomans, and her parents, Jake and Sylvia Simmons; specifically, Yeomans was convicted of three counts of capital murder under § 13A-5-40(a)(10), Ala.Code 1975 (murder of. two or more persons pursuant to one scheme…
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