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Lee v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided January 25, 1987No. 1 Div. 87, 1 Div. 88PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CATES, Judge.

Indictments for two separate murders: judgments of guilty of murder in the first degree: both sentences, electrocution. We reverse.

I

According to the tendencies of the State’s evidence, borne out mostly by confessions made by Lee, he encountered a trysting couple in the back seat of a Corvair on a May night. The place was an unpaved road on Dauphin Island.

If believed by the jury to the required degree (as the verdicts say it was)- -Lee killed the young man by stabbing him. Then Lee bound the girl’s hands, put her in the trunk of his car and took her apparently away from the…

2Cases cited40 opinions

  1. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. United States v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. McGautha v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  5. Boulden v. HolmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1969

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Pratt v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1972
  2. Pitts v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1974
  3. Miller v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1972
  4. Simpson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
  5. Burnett v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1977

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