Flanagan v. State

After Veronica Ann Cagle Wilson had a scuffle with another woman at "Pat's Pearl's" in Birmingham, Alabama, she and three companions, Larry Thompson and his wife Charlene, and Charles Wayne Flanagan, left the lounge in Larry's automobile. While the four traveled to an isolated area in Coalburg only three members returned to Birmingham that early morning of January 7, 1978. Ann Wilson had been brutally stabbed to death. Flanagan was indicted and convicted for her first degree murder. Sentence was fixed at life imprisonment.

The State's chief witness was Charlene Thompson, who was also under…