Legal Opinion

King v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided September 8, 1987PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

518 So.2d 191 (1987)

James Mitchell KING

v.

STATE.

1 Div. 18.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

September 8, 1987.

Rehearing Denied November 24, 1987.

James W. May, Gulf Shores, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Martha Gail Ingram, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

TAYLOR, Judge.

Petitioner was convicted in May 1982 of the murder of Horace Junior Goodwin and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The record reveals that one of appellant's two trial attorneys also represented him on his original appeal.

On October 26, 1983, petitioner filed a pro se petition for writ of…

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2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. People v. . FieldingNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
  3. J. Monroe Dunn v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
  4. McAdory v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1878
  5. Vinzant v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1984

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Arthur v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1990
  2. Ex Parte ParkerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1992
  3. Allen v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1994
  4. Guthrie v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1993
  5. Covington v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1993

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