Mitchell v. State

HARRIS, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to forty (40) years imprisonment in the penitentiary. This appeal comes to this Court in forma paiiperis and the appellant’s counsel on appeal represented him at the trial below.

Appellant was arrested on July 31, 1971, and charged with first degree murder in the pistol slaying of Chief of Police Mark Raleigh Clark of Millry, Alabama. Chief Clark was investigating a disturbance at the Roscoe Pool Hall in Millry on July 23, 1971, when the shooting occurred. Clark was accompanied by an auxiliary policeman, David…