Byrd v. State

Clarke, Presiding Justice.

Appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder following a jury trial.1 The evidence showed that he shot Clifford Lee Wilson after demanding a return of $20. Witnesses testified that when he alighted from a car and demanded the money, he hit the victim. Another person then got out of the car and began to fight with the victim. When the victim struck back, this person told appellant to get the gun. Appellant took a shotgun from the car and shot the victim in *37the back. When the victim ran, appellant pursued him and shot him in the back of the head..

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