Aldridge v. State

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

As the result of an assassination plot to kill District Attorney General Heiskell Win-stead and his wife, Barbara Winstead, the defendant-appellant, Orville Curtis Al-dridge, was indicted for solicitation of murder in the first degree. Aldridge was subsequently convicted by a Hawkins County jury and sentenced to six to twenty-one years imprisonment. On appeal he attacks (1) the validity of the indictment, (2) the failure of the trial court to order a continuance, (3) both the sufficiency of the evidence and the admissibility of certain items of evidence introduced at…