Coon v. State

Huey Edward Coon was charged in a four-count indictment under Alabama's Death Penalty Statute, § 13-11-1, through § 13-11-9, Code of Alabama 1975, for the intentional killing of John Ezra Brown by striking him about his head and body with a heavy instrument and by stabbing him with a knife while in the commission of a robbery during which some $190.00 was taken.

The jury found the appellant "guilty as charged in the indictment" and fixed punishment at death by electrocution.

Thereafter, the trial court conducted a post-conviction hearing on the aggravating as well as the mitigating…