Shepard v. State

Second degree murder; sentence: life imprisonment.

On the afternoon of August 10, 1973, Joan Collins was riding in Birmingham in an automobile driven by Dan Simpson, and accompanied by her sister, Harriett Dixon, and by Howard Wright and Tony Dixon. The appellant, riding by in an automobile driven by Leo Broom, recognized his former girlfriend, Joan Collins, and followed the the other automobile to Harriett Dixon's house. The two automobiles stopped and as Joan Collins stepped from her car, the appellant approached and said, "Bitch, I told you I was going to kill you." Appellant fired several…