Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Williams

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided October 9, 1958No. 7 Div. 302PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COLEMAN, Justice.

In April, 1950, in the Circuit Court of Shelby County, the petitioner, Charles W. Williams, was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. After motion for new trial was denied petitioner appealed to this court and the judgment of conviction was affirmed. Williams v. State, 255 Ala. 229, 51 So.2d 250.

The instant proceeding was instituted by filing in this court a petition for leave to file in the Circuit Court of Shelby County an application for writ of error coram nobis in the above mentioned cause. The judgment of conviction having been here…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  2. Pyle v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
  3. Johnson v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1943
  4. Lamb v. State of FloridaSupreme Court of Florida · 1926
  5. Taylor v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1948

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3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Summers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
  2. Woodard v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1965
  3. Ex Parte RudolphSupreme Court of Alabama · 1964
  4. Ex Parte SealsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1961
  5. Hope v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1988

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