HUNTER v. STATE

SC 1397.

325 So.2d 921 (1975)

In re Robert HUNTER v. STATE of Alabama. Ex parte Robert Hunter.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied January 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roderick Beddow, Jr., and James M. Fullan, Jr., Birmingham, for petitioner.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., Joseph G. L. Marston III, and Aubrey Ford, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State, opposed.


BLOODWORTH, Justice.

This petition for writ of certiorari seeking review and reversal of a Court of Criminal Appeals' decision was granted and submitted after oral argument. The decision below affirmed petitioner's second degree murder conviction.

The basis for review is averred to be a "conflict" between that decision and this Court's decision in Karr v. State, 100 Ala. 4, 14 So. 851 (1893), inter alia. We agree and reverse and remand.

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