EX PARTE TOMLIN

No. 87-1477.

548 So.2d 1341 (1989)

Ex parte Richard Hilton TOMLIN. (Re Richard Hilton TOMLIN v. STATE of Alabama).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Dissenting Opinion from Denial of Rehearing July 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles G. Reynolds, Jr., Lanett, for petitioner.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and J. Thomas Leverette, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


JONES, Justice.

We granted the defendant's petition for writ of certiorari to review the Court of Criminal Appeals' "no opinion" affirmance, 531 So.2d 72, of the defendant's conviction and sentence based on the charge of unlawful possession of marijuana. The primary issue is whether the trial court erred in allowing the State, over the defendant's objection, to introduce evidence of prior felony convictions (one for possession and one for sale of marijuana), both...

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