Purser v. State

The appellant, James Allen Purser, was convicted of murder, a violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975, and of attempted murder, a violation of §§ 13A-6-2 and 13A-4-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.

The appellant, Purser, was convicted for the murder of Mark Pollard and the attempted murder of the appellant's estranged wife, Karen Denise Purser. The state's evidence at trial tended to show that the two victims were parked in the parking lot of the Pine Bowl Bowling Alley in Fultondale, Alabama, early in the morning of September 28, 1989. They were…