TAYLOR v. STATE

6 Div. 241.

213 So.2d 566 (1968)

Lawrence Erskine TAYLOR v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

August 15, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Erskine Taylor, pro se, and John Golden, Birmingham, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Robt. F. Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


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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