EX PARTE STATE

84-494.

476 So.2d 632 (1985)

Ex parte STATE of Alabama. (Re Robert Lee CRITTENDEN, alias Bean Crittenden v. STATE of Alabama).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

August 30, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Allen Edward Cook, Andalusia, for respondent.


ADAMS, Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the Court of Criminal Appeals' reversal in this case in light of United States v. Leon, ___ U.S. ___, 104 S.Ct. 3405, 82 L.Ed.2d 677 (1984).

The salient facts are as follows:

The defendant, Robert Lee Crittenden, had cohabitated with Sara Jackson, who had a nine-year-old daughter. The two quarreled and separated, and, according to the testimony of the defendant, Sara Jackson threatened him, saying...

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