Case ID: so2d_408/html/0548-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PER CURIAM. TORBERT, Chief Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte State of Alabama. (Re: Jesse E. GRADDICK v. STATE of Alabama).
    80-806.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Jan. 8, 1982.
    Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and George Hardesty, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.
    George Beck of Baxley, Beck & Dillard, Birmingham, for respondent.
    Dennis N. Balske, Montgomery, for ami-cus curiae Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.
   PER CURIAM.

WRIT QUASHED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED, 408 So.2d 533 (Ala.Cr. App.).

MADDOX, FAULKNER, JONES, SHORES, EMBRY and BEATTY, JJ., concur.

TORBERT, C. J., and ALMON, J., dissent.

ADAMS, J., not sitting.

TORBERT, Chief Justice

(dissenting).

I would agree that the judgment of conviction on four counts of securities fraud must be reversed. In my opinion, however, the sanction of dismissal of the indictment and discharge of the defendant is much too extreme.

ALMON, J., concurs.