Wilson v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant-defendant, an indigent and a minor with the same appointed counsel here and at nisi pruis, was convicted of robbery with punishment at thirty years.

It appears that this defendant was tried and convicted by a jury for the offense of robbery without being informed of his option to be tried under the terms of the Youthful Offender Act, which has been codified as T. 15, §§ 266(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6), Recompiled Code 1958, and construed in Morgan v. State, 291 Ala. 764, 287 So.2d 914.

The Supreme Court in Morgan held that the Act…