Fowler v. State

SAM TAYLOR, Judge.

Appellant Edwrick Venor Fowler was convicted of robbery in the first degree of the Shoney's Inn in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Pursuant to § 15-22-27.2, Code of Alabama 1975, and because of Appellant’s having been previously convicted of a Class A felony, this was a sentence to life imprisonment without parole.

That section reads:

“In all cases where a criminal defendant has been convicted of a Class A felony committed after a previous conviction of another Class A felony, and such second conviction results in a sentence to…