Windsor v. State

The appellant, Harvey Lee Windsor,1 was convicted of murder made capital because the murder was committed during the course of a robbery. § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Code of Alabama 1975. The jury unanimously recommended the death penalty. The trial court accepted the jury's recommendation and sentenced the appellant to death by electrocution.

I

The appellant initially argues that he was denied a fair and impartial trial because, he says, members of the circuit court clerk's office excused potential jurors from service without the supervision of a judge. He maintains that the clerk's or assistant clerk's…