Legal Opinion
Jessie v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided July 29, 1994No. CR-92-1999PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TAYLOR, Judge.
The appellants, Bobby Ray Jessie, Willie James Henry, and Gerald Demetrius Reed, were each convicted of two counts of murder, violations of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. They were each sentenced as habitual felony offenders to two sentences of life imprisonment, those sentences to be served concurrently.
The state’s evidence tended to show that in August 1992, the appellants drove past an apartment building in the Snug Harbor area of Prichard, Alabama, and that from the window of the automobile in which they were traveling, a shotgun was fired into a group of people gathered…
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