Culbert v. State

TYSON, Judge.

The Grand Jury of Marshall County, Alabama, indicted the appellant for the first degree murder of Arville Ora Patterson, alias “Bob” Patterson, by shooting him with a pistol. The Jury found the appellant guilty of murder- in the second degree, and its verdict and judgment set sentence at twenty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

On October 7, 1972, James Hard and his wife, Dorothy Hard, were riding to their home in the Langston community of Marshall County from the “South Sauty Fish Camp.” Shortly before 5:00 in the afternoon, as they drove down the “Five Points” road, they…