Legal Opinion
Jones v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided August 2, 1983PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Seventy-one-year-old William Hosea Waymon was a cab driver in Mobile. In August of 1981, his body was discovered near his cab with four bullet wounds in his head and neck area. The defendant was indicted for the capital offenses of murder during a robbery in the first degree, Alabama Code Section13A-5-40 (a)(2) (1975), and murder committed while the defendant is under a sentence of life imprisonment. Alabama Code Section 13A-5-40 (a)(6) (1975). A jury found the defendant "guilty of the Capital Offense as charged in the indictment" at the guilt-finding phase of the trial. At the…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Cumbo v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1978
- United States v. Melvin TelfaireCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Jenkins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1992
- State v. DyleTennessee Supreme Court · 1995
- Gunning v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1997
- Ex Parte HaysSupreme Court of Alabama · 1988
- Morrison v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985
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