TYSON, Judge.
Phillip Stanley Hope was indicted for the first degree murder of Louie Earl Jones. The jury found the appellant "guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in the indictment" and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. The trial court set sentence accordingly.
On March 25, 1978, the remains of Louie Earl Jones were found floating in Waxahatchee Creek on the Shelby County, Alabama, line by James Robert Gaston and Benjamin Pemberton...
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