HARRIS v. STATE

8 Div. 588.

409 So.2d 1006 (1982)

Thomas Glenn HARRIS v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

January 26, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Allen, II, Montgomery, for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and J. Anthony McLain, and James F. Hampton, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.


BOWEN, Judge.

The defendant was indicted and convicted for the first degree murder of Flora Dean Polk. Sentence was life imprisonment. Two issues are raised on appeal.

I

Initially the defendant argues that the absence of the trial judge from the courtroom during a portion of the prosecutor's closing argument to the jury requires a reversal of his conviction. The record reveals the following:

"(Whereupon Mr. Littrell made closing statements...

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