TAYLOR v. STATE

7 Div. 620.

160 So.2d 641 (1964)

Leroy TAYLOR v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 6, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph D. Gaines, Jr., Talladega, for appellant.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen. and David W. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


HARWOOD, Justice.

This appellant, Leroy Taylor, has been adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death.

At the trial below, he pled not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity.

The evidence presented by the State tends to show that Cynthia Marie Hawkins, a negro girl seven years of age, lived with her family in Furnace quarters, a negro section in the City of Talladega. Dye Creek ran along the back of the area several hundred...

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