Little v. State

STUART, Justice.

Ernest James Little was convicted of second-degree receiving stolen property, a violation of § 13A-8-18, Ala.Code 1975, and the trial court sentenced him to life imprisonment.1 The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Little’s conviction and sentence, in an unpublished memorandum from which Judge Welch dissented, Little v. State, 54 So.3d 958 (Ala.Crim.App.2009). Little petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals. We granted the writ to determine whether the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals that the State…