Wheeler v. State

ON REHEARING EX MERO MOTU

TAYLOR, Presiding Judge.

This court’s opinion of October 21, 1994, is hereby withdrawn and the following substituted therefor.

The appellant, Mark Shannon Wheeler, was convicted of murder, a violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to life in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence tended to show that on July 7, 1993, the decomposed body of 16-year-old L.B.1 was discovered in the Talla-poosa River in Cleburne County. A rope had been tied around the neck and one ankle and the ends of ropes were tied to a tire rim. The coroner testified that the…