Cain v. State

Gunter, Justice.

This is an appeal from a murder conviction and sentence to life imprisonment. The case was tried before the judge without the intervention of a jury.

The written verdict rendered by the court was: "This case having come on regularly for trial before me without a jury, the defendant and his counsel having requested trial without a jury and having waived jury trial, after hearing evidence and argument of counsel and after considering all facts and circumstances properly before the court, this court finds Gerald Lamar Cain guilty of murder, in that he did unlawfully in the…