Sprouse v. State

Jordan, Justice.

Jerry Sprouse was convicted of murder and kidnapping with bodily injury and two counts of aggravated assault. He was sentenced to death for murder and kidnapping with bodily injury and ten years each for the aggravated assaults. His case is here on direct appeal of the convictions and mandatory review of the death sentences imposed.

A co-indictee, Johnny L. Johnson, was convicted of the same murder and was sentenced to death in addition to a life sentence for rape, a twenty-year sentence for kidnapping and a ten-year sentence for aggravated assault. These convictions and the…