EX PARTE RICHARDSON

6 Div. 63.

174 So.2d 693 (1964)

Ex parte Hollis RICHARDSON.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hollis Richardson, pro se.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., and John C. Tyson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PRICE, Presiding Judge.

This is an application for writ of error.

Petitioner, a prisoner at Kilby, alleges that he entered a plea of guilty to a charge of assault with intent to rape, and that the trial judge adjudged him guilty and sentenced him to twenty years in the penitentiary.

It is insisted that the fixing of the punishment was a matter for a jury and that the trial judge was without authority to impose the sentence.

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