Legal Opinion

Whitehorn v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided August 20, 1985No. 5 Div. 955Published

1Opinion of the Court

McMILLAN, Judge.

From a denial of appellant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus, without an eviden-tiary hearing, this appeal follows. For the reasons outlined below, we remand this cause to the trial court, with instructions.

On September 4,1984, the appellant filed a;pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus alleging that he was denied due process of law in connection with a disciplinary hearing dated February 9, 1983.* The State filed a motion to dismiss, which alleged, in part, that the petition was a “successive petition” and was thus subject to dismissal under the authority of Bailey v.…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Bruce Talmadge Whitehorn v. E.L. Harrelson Mr. Green D. Foster, E. Potts, CounselorsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
  2. Hiram B. Bailey v. Joseph A. OliverCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983

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