BALL v. STATE

6 Div. 860.

489 So.2d 675 (1986)

Jeanne Jones BALL v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied March 25, 1986.

Certiorari Denied May 23, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Cromwell Johnson of Johnson, Cory & McNamee, Birmingham, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen. and Beth Slate Poe, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


Alabama Supreme Court 85-760.

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Jeanne Ball was indicted for the murder of Nelson Todd McCray and convicted for manslaughter. Sentence was ten years' imprisonment.

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The defendant contends that her statement was induced by a promise of leniency and should not have been admitted into evidence at her trial.

On July 12, 1984, Birmingham Police Sergeant William T. Gaut was investigating McCray's death. He obtained...

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