Walker v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

Prior to the submission of the appeal in instant case, an appeal by the same appellant in another case (Walker v. State, 6 Div. 168) had been submitted. The results in No. 168 have been an affirmance, January 4,1977; a reversal by the Supreme Court of Alabama on September 23, 1977, and an affirmance after remandment on December 6, 1977.

In No. 168 defendant was charged with possession of heroin, found guilty, and assessed a fine of fifteen hundred dollars to which the court added imprisonment for ten years and one day as additional punishment.

In the case…