EX PARTE EDWARDS

82-119.

452 So.2d 503 (1983)

Ex parte: Ervin EDWARDS. (In re: Ervin Edwards v. State of Alabama.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied July 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Merceria L. Ludgood and Michael A. Figures, Walter Davis and Samuel F. Irby, Jr., Mobile, for petitioner.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen. and Edward E. Carnes and Thomas R. Allison, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

On August 14, 1979, Henry Booth, a Mobile police officer, was killed while attempting to arrest the petitioner, Ervin Edwards. Edwards was indicted by the Mobile County Grand Jury for the capital murder of a police officer and found guilty under Code 1975, § 13-11-2(a)(5). The jury recommended the death penalty and the trial court sentenced Edwards to death.

On the day of the killing, Officer Booth was attempting to locate Edwards, who was...

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