Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Bell
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided June 30, 1987PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
This case involves a petition for writ of mandamus filed in this Court.
In 1983, Elton Bell was convicted of capital murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. That conviction was reversed on appeal because a majority of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals found that "the verdict was so contrary to the great weight of the evidence that it [was] palpably wrong and unjust." Bell v. State, 461 So.2d 855, 867 (Ala.Cr.App. 1984). The Alabama Supreme Court quashed the Alabama Attorney General's petition for writ of certiorari.
In September of 1986, a Covington County circuit…
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