Bridges v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

The judgment of conviction and sentence to imprisonment for life from which the appeal in the instant case was taken was based upon the following verdict of the jury:

“WE THE JURY FIND THE DEFENDANT GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE AS CHARGED IN THE INDICTMENT AND FIX HIS PUNISHMENT AT IMPRISONMENT IN THE PENITENTIARY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA FOR LIFE.”

The case had been submitted to the jury on defendant’s plea of not guilty, which was entered by defendant while accompanied by his appointed attorneys at the arraignment on December 6, 1984, to the…