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THIGPEN v. STATE

6 Div. 938.

372 So.2d 385 (1979)

Donald THIGPEN v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 22, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Diana Hicks, Mobile, David Gespass, Birmingham, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, and John C. Boger, New York City, Anthony Amsterdam, Stanford, Cal., for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Mary Jane LeCroy, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State, appellee.

BOOKOUT, Judge.

Appeal from denial of writ of error coram nobis.

The appellant was convicted on May 3, 1972, for the shotgun slaying of Cassie Lee Davis. He was sentenced to death in that case. However, on appeal to this court that sentence was modified to life imprisonment due to the intervening decision of the United States Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238...

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