Guthrie v. State

The appellant, Lavon Guthrie, was convicted after a jury trial of the capital offense of murder committed during a robbery in the first degree, in violation of § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Code of Alabama 1975. At the sentencing phase of the trial, the jury voted unanimously to recommend that the appellant be sentenced to death. At the trial court's sentencing hearing held pursuant to § 13A-5-47, the trial court sentenced the appellant to death by electrocution.

This case must be remanded to the circuit court for that court to determine whether the state exercised its peremptory challenges in a racially…