Hicks v. State

PARKER, Justice.

Sarah Janie Hicks petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Criminal Appeals’ judgment affirming her conviction, following a guilty plea, for chemical endangerment of a child for exposing her unborn child to a controlled substance, in violation of Alabama’s chemical-endangerment statute, § 26-15-3.2(a)(1), Ala.Code 1975. We granted her petition, and we now affirm the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals and hold that the use of the word “child” in the chemical-endangerment statute includes all children, born and unborn, and furthers Alabama’s…