Legal Opinion
Mathis v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided May 11, 1972No. 4 Div. 305PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARWOOD, Justice.
This case was originally assigned to another Justice, but was recently reassigned the writer.
This appellant was adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death in the Circuit Court of Coffee County, Alabama, in 1964. This judgment was affirmed by this court (Mathis v. State, 280 Ala. 16, 189 So.2d 564), and the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari.
Thereafter the appellant filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis in the Circuit Court of Coffee County, but no claim of error was made because of the qualification of the jurors in…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Boulden v. HolmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Maxwell v. BishopSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Funicello v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Mathis v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Hill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
- Hill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1979
- Mathis v. PaulSupreme Court of Alabama · 1973