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- Title: Willie James Pope v. State Ex Parte State
- Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
- Release Date : January 16, 1976
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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MADDOX, Justice. Defendant Pope, an indigent, was convicted of first degree murder. He appealed his conviction, and was given a free lawyer, and finally, was given a free transcript. Pope obviously failed to timely file a transcript of the evidence or request an extension of time within which to file. Nevertheless, the Court of Criminal appeals remanded his cause to the Circuit Court with directions that a transcript of the evidence should be filed with the Circuit Clerk within sixty days. The transcript of the evidence, which was filed twenty-two days late with the circuit clerk, contained a court reporter's certificate to the effect that the transcript contained a full, true, and correct transcript of the testimony proceedings as set out to the best of his ability. Pope excused his late filing of the transcript on the ground that the State had the burden to see that his transcript was not only filed in time, but that it was properly prepared. The Court of Criminal Appeals agreed with him, 345 So.2d 1382.