Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Tomlin
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided December 9, 1983No. 79-288PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING
Phillip Wayne Tomlin was convicted under Alabama's 1975 death penalty statute of first degree murder wherein two or more people are intentionally killed by one or a series of acts and of first degree murder done for a pecuniary or other valuable consideration or pursuant to a contract or for hire. Sections 13-11-2 (a)(10) and (7), Code of Alabama (1975) (repealed). The trial court held a sentencing hearing and entered an order setting out its findings as to aggravating and mitigating circumstance and sentencing the defendant to death. On appeal the Court of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Hopper v. EvansSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Van Antwerp v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
- Ex Parte JohnsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1979
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1979
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Sockwell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1993
- Bush v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1988
- Ex Parte LewisSupreme Court of Alabama · 2001
- Henderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1990
- Gamble v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2000
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