How do judges of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1973 / Served to 1976

Billy Burney

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Billy Burney was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1973–1976 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Burney authored 2 published opinions for the court (1973–1976). Most cited: Ballard v. State (19 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 1 of these was attributed to Burney by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1973	Ballard v. State	286 So. 2d 68	19
1976	Smiley v. State†	338 So. 2d 491	2

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Questions & answers

How do judges of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Billy Burney on?: Billy Burney was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

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3 years on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).