Legal Opinion

Smith v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 14, 1968No. 4 Div. 214Published

1Opinion of the Court

210 So.2d 826 (1968)

Burnist Orville SMITH

v.

STATE of Alabama.

4 Div. 214.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 14, 1968.

Rehearing Denied May 23, 1968.

John C. Walters and E. C. Orme, Troy, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and W. Mark Anderson, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

LAWSON, Justice.

A jury of Pike County, Alabama, found Burnist Orville Smith guilty of the first degree murder of Mrs. Foy Post Boone and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. Judgment and sentence were in accord with the jury's verdict. Smith has appealed to this court.

Mrs. Boone, eighty-one years of age,…

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