TURNER v. STATE

4 Div. 438.

265 So.2d 883 (1972)

In re Howard TURNER v. STATE of Alabama. Ex parte STATE of Alabama ex rel. ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 29, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Richard F. Calhoun, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Lee & McInish, Dothan, for respondent.


MERRILL, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to twenty-five years in the state penitentiary. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the judgment on the ground that one of defendant's witnesses, Curtis Ward, was threatened with imprisonment, browbeaten and intimidated in the cross-examination by the district attorney.

The victim of the robbery testified that he got in an automobile with the defendant and one Willie Mae Higgins, that...

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