Crawford v. State

After Remand from the Alabama Supreme Court

The Alabama Supreme Court, in Ex parte Crawford,686 So.2d 196 (Ala. 1996), ordered this Court to address the appellant's argument that the trial judge in this case should recuse because of an alleged conflict of interest; this Court originally held that this argument was improperly presented on direct appeal and that the question should have been presented by a petition for a writ of mandamus.

The appellant, Virgil Marinus Crawford, was arrested on July 21, 1994, according to the case action summary. He was indicted on September 23, 1994, on two…