Steele v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided July 17, 1987

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1987-07-17

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently November 1994

2 state decisions

Relies on 47 Ala. App. 182 - Felton v. State · O. L. Cooper v. State · 512 So. 2d 124 - Steele v. State

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Decided 1987-07-17

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MADDOX, Justice.

¶1After considering the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals, 512 So.2d 124 and the briefs of the parties, we are of the opinion that the writ of certiorari is due to be quashed as having been improvidently granted.

¶2Our quashing of the writ should not be understood as approving or disapproving the language used, or the statements of law contained, in the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals. See Cooper v. State, 287 Ala. 728, 252 So.2d 108 (1971).

¶3WRIT QUASHED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

JONES, ALMON, SHORES, BEATTY, ADAMS, HOUSTON and STEAGALL, JJ., concur.TORBERT, C.J., not sitting.