Brown v. State

HARRIS, Judge.

Appellant stands convicted of murder in the first degree and is now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary. Both at arraignment and trial, he was represented by retained counsel. He pleaded not guilty. After conviction he was found to be indigent and a free transcript of the evidence was furnished him. Trial counsel represents him on appeal.

In the early morning hours of May 22, 1973, two men and a seventeen-year-old girl robbed a service station on the causeway in Baldwin County. The station operator was killed with a shotgun blast from a .410 double barrel sawed-off…