GOODSON v. STATE

CR 90-1313.

588 So.2d 937 (1991)

Leroy GOODSON v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

October 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy Goodson, pro se.

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., and Gilda Branch Williams, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


BOWEN, Judge.

The petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that his indictment for first degree robbery was fatally defective because the affidavit in support of the arrest warrant charged only robbery in the second degree. The circuit court properly treated the habeas corpus petition as a petition for post-conviction relief.

"For the writ [of habeas corpus] to apply, the judgment under which the convicted person is held must be void...

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