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Williams v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 13, 1969No. 2 Div. 527PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment denying a petition for writ of error coram nobis from a judgment and sentence of life imprisonment for robbery where the petitioner pleaded guilty on May 5, 1943.

The petition was filed May 20, 1968, some 25 years after the sentence was imposed. Petitioner alleges that he was an escaped convict from Camp Thomaston in Marengo County; that he was rearrested in Eutaw, Alabama, and returned to the prison camp and was “thereupon beaten by a Mr. Clarence Thomas into signing a confession of the robbery that was said to have happened the 13th day of…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. David Busby v. William C. Holman, Warden, Kilby PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
  2. Grant Cooper v. William C. Holman, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
  3. Echols v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1964
  4. Knowles v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1967
  5. Duncan v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1963

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Barnes v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
  2. G.E.G. v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 2010
  3. Lancaster v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978

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