Turner v. State

Willie Lee Turner, the appellant, was convicted of felony murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The State's evidence tended to show the following: Arthur Davis, a friend of the appellant's, went to the appellant's home in Sheffield, Alabama, on the morning of April 22, 1993, and washed the appellant's automobile as a favor to him. R. 713, 716-21. Davis testified that, while he was washing the appellant's car, a man drove up and spoke to the appellant. R. 721-24. After the man left, the appellant told Davis that he knew who had his safe, R. 725, which had apparently been stolen from…