SIMS v. STATE

6 Div. 312.

283 So.2d 635 (1973)

James SIMS v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

September 25, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Thompson, Tuscaloosa, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Robert S. Lamar, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


DeCARLO, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County adjudging appellant guilty of murder in the first degree and sentencing him to death by electrocution.

Details of the murder were presented by the State through the testimony of Michael Jones, a fourteen-year-old eyewitness. He was spending the night of April 4, 1969, with his grandmother, Mrs. Carrie Jones, and during the early morning hours they were both awakened by...

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