Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Poole

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided August 15, 1986No. 84-1274Published

1Opinion of the Court

497 So.2d 537 (1986)

Ex parte Bennie Steve POOLE.

(Re Bennie Steve Poole v. State of Alabama).

84-1274.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

August 15, 1986.

W. Clint Brown, Jr. of Brown-Willman, Decatur, for petitioner.

James S. Ward of Corley, Moncus, Bynum & DeBuys, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

MADDOX, Justice.

While petitioner, a law enforcement officer, was responding to a call for help, his vehicle collided with another vehicle. Two persons were killed. He was convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced to a term of three years' imprisonment. Petitioner appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals, which…

Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part.

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Hunter v. UnderwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  2. Nobis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1981
  3. Beauregard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1979
  4. Ex Parte NettlesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1983
  5. Ex Parte LedbetterSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981

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