Dukes v. State

PATTERSON, Presiding Judge.

Caddis L. Dukes appeals from the trial court’s dismissal of his A.R.Cr.P.Temp. 20 petition, as amended, in which he contested his 1987 conviction for second degree escape and his resulting sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment. Dukes’s appeal of this sentence and conviction was affirmed with no opinion on April 12, 1988. Dukes v. State, 531 So.2d 65 (Ala.Cr.App.1988).

The trial court granted the state’s motion to dismiss Dukes’s petition in which the state averred that the petition “does not state grounds upon which relief may be granted, and further that the Statute of…