Salter v. State

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for post-conviction relief.

The petitioner-appellant, Dewey Wayne Salters, an inmate in the Alabama prison system confined in Elmore County, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of Elmore County, Alabama, attacking his 1983 guilty plea convictions in Jefferson County for the unlawful possession of controlled substances in violation of Ala. Code 1975, § 20-2-70. He alleges that his possession of Diazepam and Hashish was simultaneous and that, under Vogel v. State, 426 So.2d 863 (Ala.Cr.App. 1980), affirmed, 426 So.2d 882…