Ex Parte Trawick

Timothy Lamar Trawick petitions for certiorari review of the affirmance by the Court of Criminal Appeals of the trial court's dismissal of his Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition. Trawick alleged in his Rule 32 petition that his sentence had been illegally enhanced under the Habitual Felony Offender Act, § 13A-5-9, Ala. Code 1975 ("the HFOA"). We affirm.

Trawick was convicted in 1986 of two counts of rape in the first degree and two counts of sodomy in the first degree. He was sentenced to life imprisonment under the HFOA based on three prior felony convictions in 1976 for the sale of…