
    Ex parte Keith WHITE. (Re: Keith White v. State of Alabama).
    No. 80-689.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Aug. 21, 1981.
    T. Michael Putnam of Potts, Young & Blasingame, Florence, for appellant.
    No briefs filed for respondent.
   TORBERT, Chief Justice.

The duty is not on the defendant to request a court reporter. He is entitled to a court reporter but can waive the right.

By denying the writ, we are not to be understood as approving the statement by the Court of Criminal Appeals that “[n]o violation of the guaranty of due process results from the failure to provide a court reporter to preserve a record of testimony in the absence of a request therefore,” for which proposition that court cited Aldridge v. State, 278 Ala. 470, 179 So.2d 51 (1965).

WRIT DENIED.

MADDOX, JONES, SHORES and BEAT-TY, JJ., concur.  