WILSON v. STATE

CR-92-1223, CR-93-2132.

690 So.2d 449 (1995)

Betty Woods WILSON v. STATE. Betty Woods WILSON v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Drake, Tuscaloosa; Paul M. Sandlin, Huntsville, Charles Hooper, Huntsville; and Bobby Lee Cook, Summerville, GA, for appellant.

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., Margaret Childers, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


TAYLOR, Judge.

The appellant, Betty Woods Wilson, was convicted of hiring someone to kill her husband, Dr. Jack W. Wilson, a Huntsville ophthalmologist, an offense made capital because the murder was "done for a pecuniary or other valuable consideration or pursuant to a contract or for hire." § 13A-5-40(a)(7), Code of Alabama 1975. The appellant waived the jury's participation in the penalty phase of the capital trial and the state recommended that Wilson be...

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