Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes Docket Number 79-846. Attorney(S) Richard S. Jaffe, Birmingham, for Charles A. Graddick, , William Dudley Motlow, Jr., , for Judges ADAMS, Justice. See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. Ex parte James Earl CARPENTER. (Re James Earl Carpenter, v. State of Alabama). ADAMS, Justice. Writ quashed as improvidently granted, 404 So.2d 89. TORBERT, C.J., and FAULKNER, JONES, ALMON, SHORES, EMBRY and BEATTY, JJ., concur. MADDOX, J., not sitting.