Fisher v. State

OPINION

PARKS, Judge:

James Fisher, Jr., the appellant, was tried by jury and convicted of First Degree Murder under 21 O.S. 1981, § 701.7, in Oklahoma County District Court, Case No. CRF-83-137, before the Honorable William Kessler, sitting as a visiting judge. The jury sentenced the appellant to death. Judgment and sentence was imposed in accordance with the jury’s verdict.

Briefly stated, the evidence presented by the State showed that on the evening of either December 11 or 12, 1982, Terry Neal, a bisexual man, traveled to downtown Oklahoma City looking for a male sexual companion. He…