GIVAN, Chief Justice.
Appellant was convicted by a jury of First Degree Murder. The court imposed a life sentence.
The facts are: Ruth Heaton, an elderly and nearly blind widow, was killed during the evening of April 7, 1977. She had been struck five times on the head with a candelabra and rendered unconscious. Her assailant then placed one end of a rope around her neck and the other end of the rope was tied to a doorknob. Strangulation was the cause of death...
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