Collier v. State

*377BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant-defendant, an indigent at nisi prius and on this appeal, was convicted of first degree murder. The jury fixed punishment at life imprisonment.

The victim of the homicide was Harold Eather Brown, who was the father-in-law of defendant. The homicide was effected by the use of a semi-automatic rifle fired in the living room of deceased at his home in Cullman County.

It is undisputed and the evidence is ample that at the time defendant and his pregnant wife, together with deceased and his wife and children, all occupied the same dwelling house…