Hall v. State

ALMON, Judge.

L. C. Hall was convicted of the first degree murder of Homer A. Kimbrough and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Kimbrough was killed by a shotgun blast in the stomach during a robbery at a motel where he and his wife lived and where she was employed. She was away from the motel when the shooting occurred but discovered the dead body of her husband when she returned.

Charles Burton testified that on the evening of the homicide he and the defendant went to the home of Clyde Nathan where the defendant armed himself with a sawed-off shotgun. The defendant, according to Burton, later…