PAYNE v. STATE

3 Div. 159.

391 So.2d 140 (1980)

James W. PAYNE v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied July 29, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vaughan H. Robison of Robison & Belser, Montgomery, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., Helen P. Nelson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

Appellant was tried on an indictment charging him with murder in the first degree of Clyde Davis, "by shooting him with a pistol." A jury found him guilty of murder in the second degree and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for fifteen years, and the court sentenced him accordingly.

As we find it necessary to reverse the judgment by reason of a single erroneous error of the...

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