ACOFF v. STATE

2 Div. 79.

278 So.2d 210 (1973)

Franklin Delano ACOFF v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

May 15, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Demetrius C. Newton, Birmingham, Jack Greenberg and Elaine R. Jones, New York City, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and J. Knox Argo, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, for the State.


TYSON, Judge.

The Grand Jury of Dallas County, Alabama, indicted the appellant for the first degree murder of one Betty Joyce Castleberry by shooting her with a pistol. Following the lengthy trial, the Jury's verdict found the appellant guilty as charged and fixed punishment at death in the electric chair. Judgment set sentence in accordance with the verdict, and the appellant's motion for a new trial was duly overruled.

The following affidavit was given to...

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