CARPENTER v. STATE

6 Div. 154.

404 So.2d 89 (1980)

James Earl CARPENTER v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied July 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Jaffe, Birmingham, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and J. T. Simonetti, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


TYSON, Judge.

James Earl Carpenter was indicted by the grand jury for the December 21, 1978, first degree murder of Mountain Brook Swim and Tennis Club security guard Oscar Carden. Trial was had on August 27, 1979. The appellant was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. From that conviction he now appeals in forma pauperis.

Mrs. Ruby Lee Carden, the victim's wife, testified that her husband had worked at the Mountain Brook Swim and Tennis Club...

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