Legal Opinion
Council v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided April 19, 1996No. CR-94-1777PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The appellant, Robert Earl Council, was convicted of murder made capital because the murder was committed during the course of a robbery, see § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Code of Alabama 1975. The jury, by a vote of 11 to 1, recommended a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The trial court accepted the jury's recommendation and sentenced the appellant to life in the state penitentiary.
The state's evidence tended to show that on July 17, 1994, police discovered the body of Ronald Talmadge Henderson propped behind the steering wheel of his car on the corner of Griswold Road…
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