State v. Seals

HENRY I. EAGER, Special Commissioner.

Defendant was convicted of first degree murder and, pursuant to the jury verdict, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was represented at trial by able appointed counsel and was likewise so represented here. We take jurisdiction under our order of April 9, 1973, the notice of appeal having been filed before that date.

The jury might reasonably have found the facts as we now relate them. On the evening of November 3, 1971, at about nine o’clock, Thomas Spencer, Jr. (hereafter described as Spencer) met defendant on the street in front of Spencer’s house;…