HUDSON v. STATE

SC 1610.

333 So.2d 592 (1976)

In re Gayle August HUDSON v. The STATE of Alabama. Ex parte STATE of Alabama ex rel. ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied June 4, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and William A. Davis III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State, petitioner.

Charles Tom Payne, Montgomery, for respondent.

James H. Evans, Dist. Atty., and John C. Bell, Deputy Dist. Atty., for Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, amicus curiae.


FAULKNER, Justice.

This is a petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama, filed by the Attorney General. We grant the writ and reverse the appellate court.

On the night of August 11, 1974, Gayle Hudson stopped Leon Vinson to ask for directions to get from North Court Street, Montgomery, to I-85 North. Vinson told Hudson, who was accompanied by another man and a woman, to follow him, as he was going that way. After they had travelled...

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