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339 So. 2d 141

Paige v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided October 19, 1976

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · decided 1976-10-19

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently July 1980

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Decided 1976-10-19

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CATES, Presiding Judge

¶1(dissenting).

¶2I vote to remand for proper sentencing under Code 1940, T. 15, § 287 which reads:

“Any act or omission declared criminal and punishable in different ways by different provisions of law, shall be punished only under one of such provisions, and a conviction or acquittal under any one shall bar a prosecution for the same act or omission under any other provision.”

¶3Wade, supra, cited by the prosecution and by my Brother Tyson, is a case involving habeas corpus for bail before conviction. The language employed under [2] of the opinion is explanatory and was hypothesized on the possibility of a double conviction.

¶4I cannot see how the concept of a single punishment within § 287, supra, can be met by an overlap of one sentence which is three times as long as the other.

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