HOPE v. STATE

7 Div. 675.

378 So.2d 745 (1979)

Bobby Joe HOPE v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied October 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hewitt L. Conwill of Harrison, Conwill & Harrison, Columbiana, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen. and C. Lawson Little, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


TYSON, Judge.

Bobby Joe Hope was indicted and convicted in Shelby County, Alabama, for the first degree murder of Louie Earl Jones and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The dispositive issue on this appeal is whether the trial court committed reversible error in limiting the closing argument of appellant's counsel. We hold that the trial court's action so prejudiced the substantive rights of appellant that reversal and remandment of this cause is mandated.<...

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