Coulter v. State

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for writ of error coram nobis.

In 1981, David Leroy Coulter's conviction for the capital killing and robbery of George Morris and sentence of death were reversed because of a constitutional infirmity in the death penalty act under which he was prosecuted. Coulter v. State,396 So.2d 1098 (Ala.Cr.App. 1981), on authority of Beck v.Alabama, 447 U.S. 625, 100 S.Ct. 2382, 65 L.Ed.2d 392 (1980), and Beck v. State, 396 So.2d 645 (Ala. 1980).

Coulter was retried and, after one mistrial, again convicted and sentenced to death. That conviction and sentence…