Tankersley v. State

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The appellant, Jimmy Tankersley, was convicted of the murder of Lillie Mae Moore and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

I

The appellant first contends that the trial court committed reversible error by allowing the admission into evidence of testimony that, he says, was covered by the communications-to-clergy privilege set out in Rule 505, Alabama Rules of Evidence. At trial, the State called to the stand Pastor Frankie Henderson, who was the pastor at a church…