# Ex Parte Singleton

> Supreme Court of Alabama · February 8, 1985 · 465 So. 2d 443

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9937443

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex Parte Cornelius Singleton. (Re: Cornelius Singleton, Alias v. State).
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** February 8, 1985
- **Citations:** 465 So. 2d 443
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Jones
- **Judges:** Jones, Shores
- **Cited by:** 119 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the intentional murder of a nun, who had been bound by the hands and feet with her own shoelaces and strangled with a knotted strip of towel wrapped and twisted around her neck, before being buried under a pile of rocks, was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel
- recognizing that the jury considers issues- relating to the voluntariness of a confession when deciding whether the statement was credible

## Opinion text

I concur in the result. See Ritter v. State , 414 So.2d 452
(Ala. 1981) (Maddox, Jones, and Adams, JJ., concurring in part and dissenting in part).

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