Means v. State

TYSON, Judge.

The Grand Jury of Jefferson County, Alabama, indicted the appellant for first degree murder in the fatal stabbing of one Allen Moore. The Jury’s verdict and judgment fixed punishment at life imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The evidence showed that on the morning of November 14, 1970, the appellant went to the home of the deceased in Birmingham, Alabama. Appellant left to buy a bottle of wine, and when he returned he was accompanied by Robert Nash, the deceased’s brother-in-law. They were joined, a short, time later, by John Williams, a cousin of the deceased. Mrs. Richard Lee…