LAWSON, Justice:
A jury of Jefferson County, Alabama, found Lawrence Erskine Taylor guilty of the second degree murder of James W. Rule and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for the term of eighty years. Judgment and sentence were in accord with the jury's verdict. Taylor has appealed.
Rule died as a result of multiple head injuries which he received on Christmas Eve, 1964, during the course of a robbery.
On February 5, 1965, a grand jury of Jefferson...
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