JOHNSON v. STATE

8 Div. 140.

378 So.2d 1164 (1979)

Gary Wayne JOHNSON v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph E. Slate, Decatur, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen. and Edward E. Carnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


BOWEN, Judge.

The defendant, indicted for the second degree murder of Howard Curtis Francis by running over him with an automobile, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. The defendant raises two main issues on appeal: (1) That his admissions of guilt to a prisoner in the county jail were involuntary and hence inadmissible because he had previously invoked his right to counsel, because the inmate was an agent for...

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