SHEPARD v. STATE

5 Div. 649.

417 So.2d 614 (1982)

John Curtis SHEPARD v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

July 27, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Fuller, J., Lafayette, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Jane LeCroy Brannon, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


BARRON, Judge.

John Curtis Shepard was convicted of murder by a Chambers County Circuit Court jury and was sentenced to fifteen years. Hence this appeal.

The undisputed evidence shows that appellant shot the victim on April 28, 1980, a short time after a rather heated argument between them.

The only issue presented for review relates to the admission into evidence, over proper objection, of appellant's incriminatory written statement. A hearing was...

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