Beverly v. State

HARWOOD, Justice.

This appeal is from a verdict and judgment of guilty of murder in the first degree. The defendant’s punishment was fixed at imprisonment for life.

The evidence shows that the elderly victim of the murder, Andrew Bell, lived alone in a rural section of Cherokee County.

This appellant and Lee Elrod and Gene Womack entered into a plan and a conspiracy to rob Bell whom Elrod had known for several years.

On 28 July 1966, after two or three days of planning, the three conspirators drove to Bell’s home where they stopped on the pretext of needing some gasoline.

Bell was coming from his…