Porter v. State

Lee Willie Porter and Carl Leonard Cole, referred to herein as defendants, have appealed to this Court from a conviction for murder in the first degree, their punishment being fixed at death by electrocution.

While several errors have been assigned on behalf of defendants, upon the argument of the case in this Court counsel virtually conceded that they were properly convicted, but made an earnest appeal for a recommendation to the Governor for a commutation of punishment to life imprisonment, due to the ignorance, lack of opportunity for a normal development, and the youthfulness of the…