ODOM v. STATE

6 Div. 895.

46 So.2d 1 (1950)

ODOM v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

April 27, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jos. C. Barnard, of Birmingham, for appellant.

A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., and MacDonald Gallion, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


SIMPSON, Justice.

Appeal from the death sentence on conviction of murder in the first degree.

The defendant, Homer Garland Odom, a white man twenty-two years of age, shot and killed William Alexander McDonald, seventy-one years of age, during a robbery of the deceased's small grocery store on Highway 31 near Gardendale in Jefferson County, Alabama. The defendant from about midday of February 8, 1949, the fatal day, loitered around the store and a short time...

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