Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Caffie
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided September 11, 1987No. 86-361Published
1Opinion of the Court
516 So.2d 831 (1987)
Ex parte Francis CAFFIE.
(Re: Francis Caffie v. State of Alabama).
86-361.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
September 11, 1987.
Rehearing Denied November 6, 1987.
Wilson M. Hawkins, Jr., Mobile, for petitioner.
Charles A. Graddick and Don Siegelman, Attys. Gen., and Beth Slate Poe, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
HOUSTON, Justice.
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