# Ex Parte Beverly

> Supreme Court of Alabama · August 8, 1986 · 497 So. 2d 519

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9933517

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex Parte Matthew L. Beverly (Re: Matthew L. Beverly v. State).
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** August 8, 1986
- **Citations:** 497 So. 2d 519
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Almon
- **Judges:** Almon, Houston, Jones
- **Cited by:** 40 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9933517

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing that “although a single act may constitute separate offenses, only one prosecution may be sustained, for the reason that the lesser offense is merged into the greater”
- explaining and overruling in partColeman v. State, 373 So.2d 1254 (Ala.Crim.App. 1979)

## Opinion text

I must respectfully dissent from that portion of the opinion which holds that Ex parte Bynum , 294 Ala. 78 , 312 So.2d 52
(1975), changes the statute of limitations for the crime of rape. As to the remainder of the opinion, I concur in the result only.

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