Collins v. State

The appellant, Chester Earl Collins, was convicted of felony murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

The state's evidence tended to show that on September 7, 1990, an investigator with the Tuscaloosa Police Department discovered the body of a woman in a driveway on 34th Avenue in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She was partially clothed and her skirt was lifted high on her legs. An autopsy revealed that she had died within five minutes after receiving a single gunshot wound to her abdomen. Semen was discovered in the victim's mouth, rectum, and vagina.

Investigators found a wallet belonging to the…