Ex Parte Poole

Full title: Ex parte Ezekiel POOLE (Re Ezekiel Poole v. State)

Court: Supreme Court of Alabama

Date published: Feb 7, 1986

485 So. 2d 1087 (Ala. 1986)

Opinion

84-1267.

February 7, 1986.

Petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals.

Barry R. Bennett, of Hobbs Hain, Selma, for petitioner.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Martha Gail Ingram, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

Prior Report: 479 So.2d 87.

Opinion on Remand: Ala.Cr.App., 485 So.2d 1088.

HOUSTON, Justice.

This case is reversed on authority of Ex parte Boatwright, 471 So.2d 1257 (Ala. 1985). The petitioner is entitled to a hearing on the issue of ineffective counsel. We remand to the Court of Criminal Appeals for action pursuant to this opinion.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

TORBERT, C.J., and MADDOX, FAULKNER, JONES, ALMON, SHORES, BEATTY and ADAMS, JJ., concur.