BROWN v. STATE

6 Div. 940.

264 So.2d 553 (1972)

In re Samuel Lee BROWN v. STATE of Alabama. Ex parte Samuel Lee Brown.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied June 8, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Romeo, and Billy Church, Birmingham, for petitioner.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Joseph Victor Price, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


MADDOX, Justice.

Petitioner, Samuel Lee Brown, was convicted of murder and was sentenced to die by electrocution. The Court of Criminal Appeals initially held that sentence of death could not be carried out because Kilby Prison, the place designated by statute in which the execution was to be made, had been torn down and a new prison built. The Court modified the sentence of death to one of life imprisonment and affirmed the judgment. Brown v. State, 1971, 6 Div....

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