Hardy v. State

W. J. HARALSON, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the second degree with sentence fixed at 75 years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

There was no eyewitness to the actual killing of the deceased, Ada Belle “Pud-din” Morgan, on the night of July 23, 1972, while she was sitting on the front porch of a friend in Bessemer. The appellant along with one Phillip Jackson, according to the evidence introduced by the State witness Eugene West Jr., conspired to kill the deceased, procured a shotgun for that purpose, and drove to the vicinity where the killing took…