Pierce v. State

ALMON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death by electrocution.

The evidence presented during the trial of this cause reflects the commission of multiple felonies by a person or persons obviously depraved in the most reprehensible magnitude.

The body of the decedent, Mrs. Florence Dorsey, was found in her bed sometime around 9:00 p.m. on March 7, 1968. Decedent was found with her ankles and hands bound and her mouth gagged with strips of white cloth appearing to have been torn from a bed sheet. The deputy coroner examined the victim’s body and subsequently…