ATWELL v. STATE

4 Div. 526.

354 So.2d 30 (1977)

Herbert Kenneth ATWELL v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied November 15, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryant F. Williams, Jr., Kenneth W. Quattlebaum, Ozark, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Milton E. Belcher, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State, appellee.


BOWEN, Judge.

The appellant was convicted for the second degree murder of his mother and sentenced to life imprisonment. His defense was insanity.

I

Initially it is alleged that error was committed by the trial judge when he failed to determine that the appellant was competent to stand trial. The appellant concedes that he was given a constitutionally proper hearing on the issue of his sanity at the time of the offense and that he was granted a properly...

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