Cannon v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

This appellant has assuredly had his “day in court,” the appellant having been indicted November 9, 1979, for murder in the first degree, found guilty thereof by a jury in May 1980, which fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. He was duly adjudged guilty by the court and sentenced to imprisonment for life in accordance with the verdict of the jury.

A large part of the procedural history of the case is correctly stated in Cannon v. Berry, 727 F.2d 1020 (11th Cir., 1984), in the second and third paragraphs of the opinion therein as follows:

“In May of…