SPEIGNER v. STATE

4 Div. 577.

367 So.2d 590 (1978)

James Alex SPEIGNER v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied January 16, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. M. Harrison, Jr., Dothan, Maury D. Smith, Charles S. Coody, Montgomery, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Elizabeth N. Petree, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


DeCARLO, Judge.

The appellant was indicted for rape by the grand jury of Houston County. On arraignment, with his counsel present, he entered a plea of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. The plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was subsequently withdrawn and no evidence on the appellant's sanity was presented to the jury.

Following a jury trial, Speigner was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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