Favors v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree and a sentence to life imprisonment.

According to the undisputed evidence, the bludgeoned body of Alonzo Williams, .the alleged victim, a man 56 years of age, was found in the 1200 block of Third Alley, North, Birmingham, between 10:00 and 11:00 A.M. on Sunday, April 6, 1975. His head was badly battered; his skull was fractured; and there was considerable blood on his head. Close to his body were a board, approximately a 2 X 4 about four feet long, and a rock about the size of a human head.…