Ex Parte Hannah

* Reporter's note: The defendant's name was spelled "Donald Hanna" in the Court of Criminal Appeals; the petition in the Supreme Court was filed under the name "Lon Donald Hannah."

This is a certiorari review of an affirmance of a conviction of robbery in the first degree. (The conviction was affirmed without opinion, 507 So.2d 1068 (Ala.Cr.App. 1987).) The petitioner, Hannah, was arrested, along with codefendant Dixon, for the armed robbery of a tavern named Bentley's in Montgomery, Alabama. Hannah was subsequently convicted of robbery in the first degree, while, in a separate trial, Dixon…