Fulghum v. State

FAULKNER, Justice.

This case presents the evil potentials of carrying a hand gun without any lawful authority to do so.

In the early morning of February 11, 1971, Charles Wyatt Harper, of Lee County, Alabama, was mortally wounded in his own home by Larry Wayne Fulghum, who shot him with a pistol.

From an examination of the record, we observe that Fulghum may not have been sober at the time of the shooting. By his own testimony, Fulghum had been drinking several hours before he knocked on the decedent’s door at 4:30 A.M., and forced his entrance into decedent’s house by pointing a gun at Mrs.…