CRUSE v. STATE

1 Div. 639.

474 So.2d 106 (1984)

John Anthony CRUSE v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Haas, Mobile, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Gerrilyn V. Grant, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Fourteen-year-old John Anthony Cruse, the appellant, was indicted and convicted for the murder of Betty Tait. Sentence was life imprisonment. That conviction was affirmed by this Court without a published opinion in July of 1982. In April of 1983, Cruse, through counsel, filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis contending that his appointed counsel were ineffective both at trial and on appeal.

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