TYSON, Judge.
Appellant was originally sentenced to death on September 7, 1977, for the rape and murder of Cheryl Lynn Payton. That conviction was reversed by this Court on February 20, 1979, because of improper closing argument by the prosecutor and because of a variance between the indictment and judgment. Whisenhant v. State,
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