EX PARTE WOODARD

CR 92-1868.

631 So.2d 1065 (1993)

Ex parte Susan Amelia WOODARD. (In re STATE of Alabama v. Susan Amelia WOODARD).

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

September 14, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice Bell and Richard Keith, Montgomery, for petitioner.

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., Joseph G.L. Marston III, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Ellen Brooks, Dist. Atty., for respondent.


PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

This is a petition for writ of mandamus challenging the constitutionality of the capital offense defined in Ala.Code 1975, § 13A-5-40(a)(15), which we term "child murder."

The petitioner, 37-year-old Susan Amelia Woodard was indicted for the capital murder of 15-month-old Elizabeth B. Dowe Franklin. The events that form the basis of the State's case occurred on December 29, 1992, and...

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