Varner v. State

The appellant was convicted of murder, a violation of §13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

I

During the course of investigating the murder in question, Montgomery police officers talked to Daniel Hunter, who lived in the vicinity of the murder. Hunter told the police that he had seen the appellant stab the deceased. The police took Hunter to the police station, where a videotape of his statement was made. Based upon Hunter's statement, and also upon other evidence gathered by the police, the appellant was arrested and subsequently indicted for murder.

At the…