Ex parte Nix

Decision Date25 May 1979
Citation370 So.2d 1119
PartiesEx parte Charles Ray NIX. 78-508.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals, 370 So.2d 1115.

BEATTY, Justice.

Writ denied.

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

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