Allen v. State

CATES, Judge.

Allen, twice convicted of second degree burglary in the Pickens Circuit Court and now in Kilby Prison, sought habeas corpus in the Montgomery Circuit Court. His petition contends that in the Pickens Circuit Court (1) the trial judge refused him the assistance of counsel and (2) the State “induced and employed coerced and false testimony to secure [his] tainted conviction.”

As an exhibit Allen attached an affidavit of a confederate in the burglaries. The effect of this affidavit was that the solicitor induced the confederate’s wife to make certain false statements in exchange for…