ALEXANDER v. STATE

No. CR77-210.

569 S.W.2d 106 (1978)

Clarence Sidney ALEXANDER, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas, In Banc.

Rehearing Denied September 5, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Palma Rainey, West Memphis, for appellant.

Bill Clinton, Atty. Gen. by Joseph H. Purvis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

After midnight on the morning of September 4, 1975, Terry Wyrick, a young filling station employee working at a Fina station near Turrell, was shot twice and robbed. Clarence Sidney Alexander (the appellant) and William Lee Fowler were promptly arrested and presumably charged with aggravated robbery. Upon Wyrick's death 17 days later the two men were separately charged with capital felony murder. Fowler later pleaded guilty and was sentenced...

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