Legal Opinion
Holley v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided January 20, 1981PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Johnny Holley, Jr., was convicted by a jury in Tuscaloosa County for robbery in the first degree and later was sentenced to life without parole when the Alabama Habitual Felony Offender Act was invoked upon a showing of seven prior felony convictions.
Johnny Holley, Jr. was identified by witnesses as the man they saw on Sunday, January 13, 1980, outside the Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in Tuscaloosa County, carrying a box of tools away from a truck belonging to Baylock Sledge. No one saw him break into the truck, and when Holley was accosted he stated that he had bought the tool box. When Sledge…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Williams v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Rummel v. EstelleSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Oyler v. BolesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Coker v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by50 opinions
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- Harlin Phillip Seritt, Jr. v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
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