Legal Opinion
Smith v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided May 26, 2000No. CR-98-0206PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
795 So.2d 788 (2000)
Joseph Clifton SMITH
v.
STATE.
CR-98-0206.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
May 26, 2000.
Rehearing Denied August 25, 2000.
Glenn L. Davidson, Mobile, for appellant.
Bill Pryor, atty. gen.; and J. Clayton Crenshaw and Thomas F. Parker IV, asst. attys. gen., for appellee.
2Per curiam
The appellant, Joseph ("Jody") Clifton Smith, was convicted of murdering Durk Van Dam during the course of a robbery, an offense defined as capital by § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala.Code 1975. The jury, by a vote of 11 to 1, recommended that Smith be sentenced to death. The trial court accepted the jury's…
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