Legal Opinion
Bates v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided June 30, 1972No. 8 Div. 27PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALMON, Judge.
Paul Warren Bates was convicted of possessing a pistol after having been convicted of a crime of violence. Tit. 14, § 174, Code of Alabama, 1940, recompiled 1958. His punishment was fixed at three years in the penitentiary.
It was stipulated that Bates had been convicted of second degree burglary and grand larceny on May 2, 1960. These are crimes of violence within the meaning of Tit. 14, § 174, Code, supra. See Tit. 14, § 172, Code, stipra.
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Randall Tishner, the arresting officer, testified that on the night of December 5, 1968, while patrolling in a police car he was dispatched…
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