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Howard v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided October 21, 2011No. 1090763Published

1Opinion of the Court

85 So.3d 1054 (2011)

Ex parte State of Alabama.

(In re Sean Travis HOWARD v. STATE of Alabama).

No. 1090763.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 21, 2011.

Troy King, atty. gen., and Beth Slate Poe, asst. atty. gen., for petitioner.

Stephanie L. Smithee, Montgomery, for respondent.

PARKER, Justice.

The State petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Criminal Appeals' decision reversing Sean Travis Howard's criminal conviction based on the trial court's failure to charge the jury on manslaughter as a lesser offense to capital murder, the offense with which Howard was charged.…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Chavers v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1978
  2. Ex Parte StorkSupreme Court of Alabama · 1985
  3. Anderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1987
  4. Ex Parte SmithSupreme Court of Alabama · 2000
  5. Washington v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2005

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