Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Powell
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided May 13, 1958No. 6 Div. 637PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CATES, Judge.
This is a request by Powell to let him file a petition with the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for a writ of error coram nobis.
Powell alleges that during his trial and on former appeal his substantial rights were violated because:—
1) he is now imprisoned for a robbery he did not commit and his only hope is by Federal intervention;
2) he has exhausted himself, if not his remedies, by motion for new trial, appeal here affirmed without opinion June 19, 1956, and not reported, a request to the Attorney General, by seeking habeas corpus in the Federal District Court, thence by…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Ex Parte FewellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1954
- Hawkins v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1958
- Cooper v. Warden of Maryland House of CorrectionCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
- Moy v. BradleyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1957
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Summers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
- William K. Powell v. Martin J. Wiman, Warden of Kilby Prison Montgomery, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- Lewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
- Ex Parte ArgoAlabama Court of Appeals · 1961
- Sanders v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1964
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