SHELTON v. STATE

No. 165, 1993.

652 A.2d 1 (1995)

Nelson Walter SHELTON, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: January 4, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson Shelton, pro se (argued).

Joseph M. Bernstein (argued), Wilmington, court appointed by Order dated May 19, 1994, to protect appellant's interests in the automatic appeal.

Eugene J. Maurer, Jr., Wilmington, standby counsel for appellant.

Richard E. Fairbanks, Jr. (argued), Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, for appellee.

Before VEASEY, C.J., WALSH, HOLLAND, HARTNETT and BERGER, JJ. (constituting the Court en banc).


VEASEY, Chief Justice.

In this appeal, we consider the April 30, 1993 sentence of death imposed by the Superior Court on defendant below-appellant Nelson Shelton ("Nelson"),1 for the first degree felony murder of Wilson Mannon ("Mannon"). Although Nelson has expressed his desire to be executed and, therefore, has not pursued a direct appeal, an automatic appeal was docketed as to his sentence. It...

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