Spraggins v. State

Hill, Justice.

This is a death case. The defendant Eddie Spraggins, along with Freddie Davis,1 was indicted in Meriwether County for the January 31,1977, rape and murder of Miss Frances Coe. After a special jury found the defendant sane at time of trial, he was tried and found guilty on March 1 and 2, 1977, on both counts. Upon the jury’s finding of a statutory aggravating circumstance to the murder charge, that the murder was committed while the offender was engaged in the rape, the defendant was sentenced to death for murder and life imprisonment for rape.

Evidence was presented from which…