Felton v. State

In the Colbert County Circuit Court appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment. He was indicted in more than one case. The charge in this case being murder in the first degree. Being indigent, he was represented at the trial by two attorneys appointed by the court and by two different ones on appeal.

The minute entry shows that on August 16, 1968, in open court in the presence of the court, the district attorney, the attorney for the defendant, and the defendant, the jury brought in the following verdict:

“We, the jury, find the…