Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Ziglar
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided March 1, 1996No. CR-95-0694PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The petitioner, Spencer Owen Ziglar, filed this petition for a writ of mandamus, asking us to direct the Honorable Robert W. Barr, circuit judge for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, not to retry the criminal case against him. He contends that to retry him for manslaughter would subject him to double jeopardy.
The petitioner was initially indicted for murder, a violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975, but was convicted of the lesser included offense of manslaughter, a violation of §13A-6-3, Code of Alabama 1975. We reversed that conviction because the petitioner's wife had been compelled to…
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