HAWKINS v. STATE

6 Div. 959.

103 So.2d 158 (1958)

Willie J. HAWKINS, alias, v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied June 12, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. K. Callahan, Jas. Douglas Buck, Samuel A. Beatty and Jos. G. Burns, Tuscaloosa, for appellant.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., Paul T. Gish, Jr., and Wm. C. Younger, Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State.


LAWSON, Justice.

This case was submitted on briefs without oral argument. At the time of submission it was assigned to another Justice. It was reassigned to the writer of this opinion on February 3, 1958.

The appellant seems to have been known by several names, but he will be referred to here as Willie Hawkins or as Hawkins. He appeals from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree with infliction of the death penalty. The appeal is under the...

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