TUCK v. STATE

6 Div. 187.

384 So.2d 1240 (1980)

Gabe Peter TUCK v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

June 17, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Amari, Birmingham, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Sandra M. Solowiej, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


BOOKOUT, Judge.

First degree murder; sentence: life imprisonment.

During the early morning hours of September 29, 1978, the appellant shot and killed his ex-wife, Helen Tuck, with a sixteen-gauge shotgun at her home in Birmingham.

Prior to the fatal shooting, the appellant and the deceased had been together at a local lounge where they had had an argument. It appears that the couple had been recently divorced. The evidence is undisputed that the appellant...

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