Dannelly v. State
| Decision Date | 21 October 1971 |
| Docket Number | 2 Div. 544 |
| Citation | 254 So.2d 443,287 Ala. 729 |
| Parties | In re William Edward Ashby DANNELLY, Jr. v. STATE of Alabama. Ex parte William Edward Ashby Dannelly, Jr. |
| Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Petition for writ of certiorari to Court of Criminal Appeals.
Pitts, Pitts & Thompson, Selma, L.Y. Sadler, John Godbold, Camden, for petitioner.
William J. Baxley, Attorney General, and David Clark, Asst.Atty.Gen., for the State.
Petition of William Edward Ashby Dannelly, Jr. for Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals to review and revise the judgment and decision of that Court in Dannelly v. State, 47 Ala.App. 363, 254 So.2d 434.
Writ denied.
I concur in the result of denying the writ in this cause. However, I want it clearly understood that I do not approve all of the language contained in the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals. My position concerning drug-affected confessions was set forth in a dissenting opinion in Beecher v. State, Sup.Ct.Mo. 7 Div. 846.
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