PIERCE v. STATE

6 Div. 205.

293 So.2d 483 (1973)

James E. PIERCE v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied October 30, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Bryan, Birmingham, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and David W. Clark and Don C. Dickert, Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State, appellee.


ALMON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death by electrocution.

The evidence presented during the trial of this cause reflects the commission of multiple felonies by a person or persons obviously depraved in the most reprehensible magnitude.

The body of the decedent, Mrs. Florence Dorsey, was found in her bed sometime around 9:00 p.m. on March 7, 1968. Decedent was found with her ankles and hands bound and her...

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