GRIFFIN v. STATE

8 Div. 118.

273 So.2d 478 (1972)

Jennie B. GRIFFIN, alias v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied January 23, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith, Johnston, Walker & Morris, Huntsville, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Richard F. Calhoun, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


ALMON, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree with a sentence of imprisonment for life.

On arraignment appellant pled not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. At trial the plea of insanity seems to have been abandoned as no evidence was offered on this issue. The appellant relied on self defense.

The evidence shows that appellant shot and killed Binford Shoemake on the night of October 1, 1969, at...

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