Tucker v. State

Murder; sentence: life imprisonment.

Appellant was indicted under § 13A-5-31 (a)(7), Code of Alabama 1975, for the first degree murder of her husband, Jimmy Eugene Tucker, committed either for a pecuniary or other valuable consideration or for hire. The State's theory was not that the appellant had committed the actual murder, but that she had hired or caused a third party to kill her husband. After due deliberation, the jury returned a guilty verdict only as to the lesser included offense of murder.

Appellant's assertion that the evidence was insufficient to sustain her conviction necessitates…