Ex Parte Womack

Certiorari was granted to consider three issues: (1) whether the trial court committed reversible error by allowing the petitioner's inculpatory statement to be introduced as evidence; (2) whether the trial court's jury instruction on aiding and abetting was erroneous; and (3) whether the death penalty should be imposed under the guidelines imposed by Beckv. State, 396 So.2d 645 (Ala. 1981).

I

The resolution of the first issue by the Court of Criminal Appeals, 435 So.2d 754, is correct. The facts of the accused's interrogation are correctly set forth in the opinion of that court. Two police…