FARRIS v. STATE

6 Div. 878.

328 So.2d 640 (1976)

Jackie Lee FARRIS v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

March 9, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith S. Crittenden, Birmingham, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., Montgomery, and Quentin Q. Brown, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Birmingham, for the State.


CATES, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of first degree murder for killing Gordon D. Zuck with an iron bar.1 The jury fixed Farris's sentence at life imprisonment.

The appellant objected to the State's introduction of a color photograph which depicted the victim's unsightly remains, i. e., massive head wounds. The appellant argued that the photograph was introduced solely to create bias and inflame the minds...

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