Ex parte Jacks

Decision Date01 December 1978
Citation364 So.2d 406
PartiesEx parte Robert Andrew JACKS. 78-92.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals, 364 So.2d 397.

BEATTY, Justice.

WRIT DENIED.

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

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