# Ex Parte McWhorter

> Supreme Court of Alabama · August 11, 2000 · 781 So. 2d 330

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9933685

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex Parte Casey A. McWhorter. (In Re: Casey A. McWhorter v. State).
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** August 11, 2000
- **Citations:** 781 So. 2d 330; 2000 WL 1137362
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Cook
- **Judges:** Cook, Johnstone, Lyons
- **Cited by:** 55 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/9933685

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing that intoxication necessary to negate specific intent must amount to insanity
- affirming sentence of death for defendant and lesser sentences for accomplices because of defendant’s pivotal role as ‘trigger-man’ in crime

## Opinion text

I concur in the main opinion in part and join Justice Johnstone in his discussion of issues XXVI and XXVII.

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