Legal Opinion
Musgrove v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided November 2, 2012No. CR-07-1528PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOINER, Judge.1
Donnis George Musgrove, an inmate on death row at Holman Correctional Facility, appeals the Jefferson Circuit Court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P.
In February 1988, Musgrove and Walter Rogers were convicted of intentional murder made capital because it was committed during a burglary, see § 13A-5-40(a)(4), Ala.Code 1975. At their request, Mus-grove’s and Rogers’s cases were consolidated for trial. The jury, by a vote of 10 to 2, recommended that Musgrove and Rogers be sentenced to death. The circuit court followed…
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