Legal Opinion
Taylor v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided August 15, 1968No. 6 Div. 241PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAWSON, Justice:
A jury of Jefferson County, Alabama, found Lawrence Erskine Taylor guilty of the second degree murder of James W. Rule and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for the term of eighty years. Judgment and sentence were in accord with the jury’s verdict. Taylor has appealed.
Rule died as a result of multiple head injuries which he received on Christmas Eve, 1964, during the course of a robbery.
On February 5, 1965, a grand jury of Jefferson County returned an indictment against Taylor, charging him with the first degree murder of Rule.
Taylor was arraigned on February 26, 1965. He…
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3Cited by15 opinions
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