Legal Opinion
Cobb v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided August 28, 1973No. 1 Div. 335PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYSON, Judge.
The Grand Jury of Mobile County, Alabama, indicted appellant for murder in the first degree. The Jury’s verdict found him guilty of murder in the second degree, and judgment set punishment at twenty years imprisonment in the State penitentiary.
Wilbert Jones died of a gunshot wound on the morning of August 5, 1971, at the Mobile General Hospital. The evidence showed that August 4, 1971, the night of the shooting, the deceased was at the Star Service Station where he was employed. At the time of the shooting, about 10:00 p. m., the deceased was not on duty at the station. The…
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