Kyzer v. State
Decision Date | 28 January 1986 |
Docket Number | 6 Div. 671 |
Citation | 484 So.2d 1202 |
Parties | Dudley Wayne KYZER v. STATE. |
Court | Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals |
James D. Smith of Searcy & Smith, Tuscaloosa, for appellant.
Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen. and J. Anthony McLain and James F. Hampton, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.
Dudley Wayne Kyzer was convicted of first degree murder and was sentenced to death, pursuant to the death penalty statute in effect at the time of his crime, §§ 13-1-1 et seq., Code of Alabama 1975. This sentence was ultimately reversed and the case remanded for a new trial based on Beck v. State, 396 So.2d 645 (Ala.1980). See Kyzer v. State, 399 So.2d 317 (Ala.Cr.App.1979), rev'd, 399 So.2d 330 (Ala.1981). Accordingly, on December 4, 1981, a new trial commenced and the appellant was convicted of two counts of first degree murder, § 13-1-70, Code of Alabama 1975, and mandatorily sentenced to two life sentences, § 13-1-74, Code of Alabama 1975. The jury also found him guilty of second degree murder, § 13-1-73, Code of Alabama 1975, and, according to the statutory requirement to use their discretion when setting the sentence at not less than ten years, § 13-1-74, Code of Alabama 1975, they set his term of imprisonment at 10,000 years. The appellant did not appeal any of these convictions and sentences.
Two and a half years later, on August 24, 1984, the appellant filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis. However, when the coram nobis hearing commenced, the appellant requested that the petition be dismissed, knowing that the dismissal would be with prejudice. The learned trial judge made the following findings regarding this hearing:
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