Legal Opinion

Wooten v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided June 1, 1971No. 3 Div. 91PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

CATES, Judge.

Second degree forgery: 'Sentence, two years.

This case is controlled by Hamilton v. State, 46 Ala.App. 128, 238 So.2d 925. Also on the record sent up to us the in court identification was not sufficiently independent to overcome the use of the confrontation of the defendant without counsel at the Montgomery City Jail in breach of Stovall v. Denno, 388 U.S. 293, 87 S.Ct. 1967, 18 L.Ed.2d 1199, decided June 12, 1967. The confrontation occurred sometime after October 30, 1969 — well after the date of June 12, 1967.

The judgment below is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Hamilton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1970

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1975

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