Howard v. State

SNODGRASS, Circuit Judge.

Murder, first degree: life imprisonment.'

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Roosevelt Howard was tried, convicted and sentenced to death for first degree murder. The Supreme Court of Alabama affirmed that conviction September 28, 1961. Howard v. State, 273 Ala. 544, 142 So.2d 685.

Howard then brought a petition for writ of error coram nobis which was denied by the Supreme Court of Alabama, 275 Ala. 59, 151 So.2d 790, but was subsequently granted, 275 Ala. 449, 155 So.2d 927.

Upon his second trial, Howard was again sentenced to death, and his conviction affirmed by the Supreme Court of Alabama, Howard v.…