Ex Parte Cochran

James Willie Cochran was convicted in the Jefferson County Circuit Court of the capital offense of robbery when the victim is intentionally killed. Code 1975, § 13A-5-31(a)(2) (Repealed).1 This appeal is based upon defendant's third trial. His first trial ended in a mistrial, and the conviction in the second trial was reversed on authority of Beck v. State,396 So.2d 645 (Ala. 1980). At the end of the third trial, defendant was sentenced to death under the procedures outlined in Beck, and both his conviction and sentence were affirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeals. Cochran v. State, 500…