Cooley v. State

The appellant, Jesse Cooley, Jr., appeals from an order of the Mobile Circuit Court denying his petition filed pursuant to Rule 25.8, Ala.R.Crim.P., seeking release from the custody of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.1

Evidence adduced at the hearing on the appellant's petition tended to show the following. In April 1981, a Mobile County grand jury indicted the appellant for the offense of murder. In October 1982, the Mobile Circuit Court adjudicated the appellant not guilty by reason of insanity. By order of the circuit court, the appellant was committed to the…