EX PARTE KING

89-257.

564 So.2d 928 (1990)

Ex parte John Wesley KING and Joey Thomas King. Re John Wesley King and Joey Thomas King v. State.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 22, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Gregory Hughes, Mobile, for petitioners.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and P. David Bjurberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


JONES, Justice.

We granted the writ of certiorari to take a closer look at the petitioners' argument that the "trial court erred in consolidating the defendants' cases for trial in the absence of the defendant, Joey King." In support of their argument, the petitioners seize upon the last sentence found in Rule 15.4(b), Temporary Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure. That rule provides as follows:

"(b) Consolidation. If defendants are charged in separate indictments...

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