Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Lankford
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided November 3, 1989No. 88-1193Published
1Opinion of the Court
564 So.2d 41 (1989)
Ex parte Heflin Mack LANKFORD.
Re STATE of Alabama
v.
Heflin Mack LANKFORD.
88-1193.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
November 3, 1989.
Rehearings Denied December 22, 1989 and January 9, 1990.
Frank H. Hawthorne, Jr. of McPhillips, DeBardelaben & Hawthorne, Montgomery, for petitioner.
Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Mary Elizabeth Culberson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.
MADDOX, Justice.
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