Legal Opinion
Hill v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided January 20, 1976No. 4 Div. 347PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.
By a petition for writ of error coram nobis, petitioner, now the appellant from a denial of the petition, sought to nullify his conviction of murder in the first degree which has been affirmed on appeal and reported as Hill v. State, 53 Ala.App. 23, 296 So.2d 921. The proceeding was instituted by petitioner pro se, but he has had the benefit of diligent appointed counsel, both on the hearing below and on appeal.
The gravamen is that he was denied due process of law and equal protection of the laws, guaranteed to him by the Fourteenth Amendment to the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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3Cited by7 opinions
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