Molton v. State

The appellant, Reginald Molton, was convicted of murder and was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment. Two issues are raised on this appeal from that conviction.

I

The appellant contends that the trial court erred in refusing to give his written requested charge on criminally negligent homicide.

Demetrius Wiley, the State's only eyewitness, testified that he went to the appellant's apartment in Birmingham, Alabama, sometime after midnight on the morning of December 14, 1991. According to Wiley, he and the appellant were drinking beer and watching a televised basketball game when Rafael Heflin…