Legal Opinion

Banks v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided September 5, 1963No. 3 Div. 81PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

GOODWYN, Justice.

From the documents filed here it appears that Johny Raymond Banks, who is confined in Kilby Prison under three separate sentences imposed by the circuit court of Pickens County, filed a habeas corpus petition in the circuit court of Montgomery County; that a writ of habeas corpus was issued as prayed for; that a return to the writ was made; and that, on April 10, 1963, after a hearing, a judgment was rendered that Banks was “not entitled to his discharge on habeas corpus, that the writ be discharged and that * * * Banks be remanded to the custody” of the warden of Kilby…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Johnson v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1943
  2. Vernon v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1941
  3. Ex Parte BurtonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963
  4. Ex Parte SmithSupreme Court of Alabama · 1963
  5. Smotherman v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1903

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Ex Parte ColbertCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1998
  2. Clay v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1990

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