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42 Ala. App. 461

Ex parte Richards

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided October 6, 1964

Alabama Court of Appeals · decided 1964-10-06

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently October 1982

2 state decisions

Relies on McNabb v. United States · Mallory v. United States

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Decided 1964-10-06

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CATES, Judge.

¶1Application for leave to seek writ of error coram nobis to review three second degree burglary convictions. The appeals came here on the record proper and show attendance of counsel at arraignment, trial, sentencing and counsel for defendant show as endorsed addresses of a copy of the notice of appeal.

¶2The petition refers to a confession made prior to preliminary examination. Neither McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332, 63 S.Ct. 608, 87 L.Ed. 819, nor Mallory v. United States, 354 U.S. 449, 77 S.Ct. 1356, 1 L.Ed.2d 1479, are Fourteenth Amendment cases.

¶3The right to counsel in criminal trials is by Constitution 1901, § 6, and is implemented by statute.1

¶4Richards avers he was denied the right to contact counsel until only a few days before trial. However, he does not aver that this deprived him of a fair trial. Moreover, the records filed here fail to show that his *462lawyers asked for a continuance because of their not having time to prepare the case . for'trial! - .

¶5TheState’s motion to dismiss is well táken because the allegations, had they been sworn to, are mere" conclusions.

¶6Application dismissed.

¶7. Code 1940, T. 41, § 223, reads: “No officer or person having the custody and control of the body or liberty of any person under arrest, shall refuse permission to such arrested person to communicate with his friends or with an attorney, nor subject any person under arrest to any form of personal violence, intimidation, indignity, or threats for the purpose of extorting from such person incriminating statements or a confession. Any person violating the- provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” ■ -

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