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350 So. 2d 334

Colston v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided August 31, 1976

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · decided 1976-08-31

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently October 1985

2 state decisions

Relies on Racine v. State · 50 Ala. App. 174 - Jones v. State · 49 Ala. App. 246 - Rutherford v. State

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Decided 1976-08-31

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DeCARLO, Judge

¶1(dissenting).

¶2Even though this murder charge grew out of the circumstances involving the robbery previously tried, Colston, supra, it is not the same offense in law or in fact. Murder and robbery are two separate and distinct offenses which are completely unrelated. Jones v. State, 50 Ala.App. 174, 277 So.2d 920; Rutherford v. State, 49 Ala.App. 246, 270 So.2d 678.

¶3In Racine v. State, 291 Ala. 684, 286 So.2d 896, the Supreme Court of Alabama recognized that although two cases are founded on the same facts, a plea of former jeopardy is unavailing if the crimes were not the same in law.

¶4Based on the foregoing, I respectfully dissent.

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