Burke v. State

The appellant, Sahking Burke, was convicted of one count of murder made capital because it was committed during the commission of a first-degree robbery, see § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala. Code 1975, and one count of attempted murder, see §§ 13A-4-2 and 13A-6-2, Ala. Code 1975. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the capital-murder conviction and to life imprisonment for the attempted-murder conviction. In addition, he was ordered to pay a $50 crime-victims-fund assessment for each conviction.

The record established that on October 2, 2002, Lawrence Lamar…