Legal Opinion
Perkins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided April 30, 2004No. CR-02-1779PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The appellant, James Perkins, was convicted of four counts of capital murder for killing Wysteria Mathews and one count of attempted murder for shooting B.W., Mathews's 15-year-old cousin. Three of the capital-murder counts charged that Perkins committed the murder during the course of a first-degree burglary, see § 13A-5-40(a)(4), Ala. Code 1975, and one of the capital-murder counts charged that Perkins committed the murder "by or through the use of a deadly weapon fired or otherwise used from outside a dwelling while the victim is in a dwelling." See § 13A-5-40(a)(16), Ala. Code 1975.…
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