Clemmons v. State

SHORES, Justice.

Defendant, Jesse Ray Clemmons, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Butler County, Alabama, on May 9,- 1973, for first degree murder. He was found guilty of second degree murder and-was sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary. He appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals, which remanded the case to the circuit court for an investigation and examination of the defendant at a hearing for a determination to be made by the trial court whether, in its discretion, he should be treated as a youthful offender under Tit. 15, §§ 266(l)-(6), Code.

The State filed a petition for writ of…