Legal Opinion

Duncan v. State

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided April 23, 1963No. 7 Div. 716PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CATES, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment based on the denial of post conviction review.

Duncan sought to put the good offices of the circuit court in motion so as to set aside an earlier conviction whereunder he was found guilty of robbery and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary.

With the most imaginative reading of the petition Duncan filed in the circuit court, the only complaint we can glean therefrom is that he now thinks that in some way or another he was not brought to trial on the indictment as soon as he thought he should have been.

In the premises of the judgment of the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Lane v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Attorney GeneralSupreme Court of Alabama · 1951

3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Summers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
  2. Woodard v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1965
  3. Thomas v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1966
  4. Clark v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1974
  5. Carroll v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1984

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