Hudson v. State

FAULKNER, Justice.

This is a petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama, filed by the Attorney General. We grant the writ and reverse the appellate court.

On the night of August 11, 1974, Gayle Hudson stopped Leon Vinson to ask for directions to get from North Court Street, Montgomery, to 1-85 North. Vinson told Hudson, who was accompanied by another man and a woman, to follow him, as he was going that way. After they had travelled some distance, Hudson blinked his lights, and blew his horn. Vinson, thinking Hudson was in trouble, stopped. Hudson walked up to…