Taylor v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is from a final order and judgment of Honorable Eugene Carter, as Judge of the circuit court of Montgomery County, wherein appellant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus was denied.

Appellant based his petition for writ of habeas corpus upon the statement of fact, which appears from the record, to be uncontroverted.

Petitioner, John Taylor, alias Johnnie Taylor, was sentenced in Etowah County, Alabama, for the offense of murder in the second degree to the State penitentiary for a flat term of 17 years on the 21st day of December, 1932, and at which time he…