Alexander v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

After midnight on the morning of September 4, 1975, Terry Wyrick, a young filling station employee working at a Fina station near Turrell, was shot twice and robbed. Clarence Sidney Alexander (the appellant) and William Lee Fowler were promptly arrested and presumably charged with aggravated robbery. Upon Wyrick’s death 17 days later the two men were separately charged with capital felony murder. Fowler later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Alexander pleaded not guilty, was tried by jury, and now appeals from a verdict and judgment finding him…