Fleming v. State

Ingram, Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court of Baldwin County of the offenses of armed robbery and murder for which he received consecutive sentences of life imprisonment. Under the state’s theory, the appellant and his father entered into a conspiracy to rob and murder the victim, Harold (Jack) Cooper, who was a crucial witness against appellant’s father in a Chatham County burglary case. The primary defense relied on by appellant was alibi and misidentification of him by the victim’s wife as the person who fired the pistol shot which resulted in the death of the…