SHEFFIELD v. STATE

8 Div. 340.

392 So.2d 1233 (1980)

Curtis Ray SHEFFIELD v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied October 7, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Holt and Joe M. Patterson, Jr., of Holt, McKenzie, Holt & Patterson, Florence, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and J. Thomas Leverette, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


BOWEN, Judge.

The defendant was indicted for the first degree murder of Robert C. Tate in a killing connected with an independent trucker's strike. A jury convicted the defendant of second degree murder and fixed sentence at thirty years' imprisonment.

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Although the evidence is wholly circumstantial, it is sufficient to support the jury's finding that the defendant was guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.

The homicide occurred during the...

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