Baker v. State

The appellant was convicted of murder, in violation of §13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced, pursuant to the Habitual Felony Offender Act, to life imprisonment without parole.

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The appellant argues that the trial court erred in refusing to appoint a psychiatrist to assist the appellant at trial; in failing to allow into evidence the appellant's psychiatric records from Greil Hospital and Taylor Hardin Secure Medical Facility; and in failing to grant the appellant's motion requesting funds to depose psychiatrists who had examined the appellant, which the trial court treated as for a…