Legal Opinion
Boulden v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided September 30, 1965No. 8 Div. 175PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAWSON, Justice.
Billy Don Franklin Boulden was convicted in the Circuit Court of Morgan County of the first degree murder of Loyd C. Hays. He was sentenced to death in accordance with the verdict of the jury. He has appealed to this court under the automatic appeal law applicable to cases where the death sentence is imposed. Act 249, approved June 24, 1943, General Acts 1943, p. 217, carried in the 1955 Cumulative Pocket Part to Vol. Four, 1940 Official Code, and in the 1958 Recompiled Code as Title 15, §§ 382(1) et seq.
Hays, a conservation officer of the State of Alabama, was killed on the…
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