Turk v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree and a sentence to life imprisonment.

No contention is made, and no reasonable contention can be made, that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict of the jury. In many respects the evidence was substantially the same as narrated in Alexander v. State, 337 So.2d 99 (Ala.Cr.App.), wherein appellant had been convicted of murder in the first degree of the same person, Mr. Olmstead Copeland, Jr., a fireman for the City of Tuscaloosa.

The major difference between the testimony in Alexander and the testimony in this case is…