Alabama Supreme Court 83-1126.
BOWEN, Presiding Judge.
Pearl Hampton, the appellant, was indicted for the first degree assault of Compton Owens. A jury convicted him of assault in the second degree. He received a ten-year split sentence, with one year to serve and the remaining nine years suspended for a period of five years' probation. Hampton argues that this conviction was barred under the principles of former jeopardy by a prior conviction involving a...
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