Ex Parte Mary Jacque Bell. (in Re Mary Bell v. State of Alabama)

Summary

The Supreme Court of Alabama denied Mary Jacque Bell’s petition for a writ of certiorari without an opinion, leaving her conviction and the Court of Criminal Appeals’ judgment undisturbed. The accompanying dissent would have granted review to decide whether Bell preserved her challenge to the refusal to instruct the jury on second-degree robbery and whether the evidence supported that instruction. Moore, Chief Justice, also would have considered instructions on attempted robbery and would have revisited existing authority concerning that offense.