State v. Allen

SIMON, Presiding Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of capital murder, rape, sodomy, and burglary. Judgment and sentence were assessed at life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 50 years on the capital murder and at 15 years on each of the three remaining convictions to be served consecutively. We affirm.

Defendant claims the trial court erred: (1) in failing to exclude his confession because it was both the fruit of an unlawful arrest and also involuntarily given; (2) in permitting the state in its case in chief to present alibi testimony for one of its own witnesses, a…