Ex parte Billups

Decision Date02 March 1979
Citation367 So.2d 524
PartiesEx parte Fred BILLUPS. 78-76.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals, 367 So.2d 518.

SHORES, Justice.

WRIT QUASHED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

TORBERT, C. J., and MADDOX, JONES and BEATTY, JJ., concur.

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5 cases
  • Story v. State, 5 Div. 659
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 23 november 1982
    ... ... Duncan v. City of Birmingham, 384 So.2d 1232 (Ala.Cr.App.1980); Billups v. City of Birmingham, 367 So.2d 518 (Ala.Cr.App.1978), writ quashed, 367 So.2d 524 (Ala.1979). The determination of this issue is within the ... ...
  • Spears v. State
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 15 april 1994
    ... ... 517 (emphasis in original) ...         This Court denied the petition without published opinion. See Ex parte Spears, 614 So.2d 1069 (Ala.Cr.App.1992) (Table) ...         In Ex parte Spears, 621 So.2d 1255 (Ala.1993), the Alabama Supreme Court also ... 864 (1913); Blevins v. State, 20 Ala.App. 229, 101 So. 478, cert. denied, 211 Ala. 615, 101 So. 482 (1924)." ...         Billups v. City of Birmingham, 367 So.2d 518, 522 (Ala.Cr.App.1978), cert. quashed, 367 So.2d 524 (Ala.1979) ...         The judgment of the ... ...
  • EX PARTE RYALS
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 21 september 2001
    ... ... State, 39 Ala.App. 496, 104 So.2d 448 (1958); Evans v. State, 24 Ala.App. 390, 135 So. 647 (1931) ... "Where the issue presented by the plea is a question of law only, however, there is no need to submit that issue to a jury. Duncan v. City of Birmingham, 384 So.2d 1232 (Ala.Cr.App.1980); Billups v. City of Birmingham, 367 So.2d 518 (Ala.Cr.App.1978), writ quashed, 367 So.2d 524 (Ala.1979). The determination of this issue is within the province of the trial judge. In other areas involving questions of law, such as evidentiary matters, trial judges may rule without a hearing. Therefore, ... ...
  • McKinnis v. State, 1 Div. 157
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
    • 7 oktober 1980
    ... ... State, 367 So.2d 542 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, Ex parte Lewis, 367 So.2d 547 (Ala.1978), Harris v. State, 367 So.2d 524 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, Ex parte Harris, 367 So.2d 534 (Ala.1978), the United ... ...
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