Ex Parte Fountain

842 So.2d 726 (2001)

Ex parte Tony FOUNTAIN.

(In re Tony Fountain

v.

State).

1991893.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 28, 2001.

Tony Fountain, pro se.

Bill Pryor, atty. gen., and Jack W. Willis, asst. atty. gen., for respondent.

JOHNSTONE, Justice.

This Court granted the defendant Tony Fountain's petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals to determine whether his right to due process was violated by the State's failure to serve him with a copy of its appellee's brief on Fountain's appeal of the denial of his first Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition and by the failure of the…