Wilson v. State

BOOKOUT, Judge.

First degree murder: sentence, life imprisonment.

The State’s first witness, Dr. James W. Sherwood, testified that he examined John Clay Smith, Jr., in Druid City Hospital, Tuscaloosa, on November 24, 1972. He testified that Smith died of a wound from a shotgun fired at close range.

Mrs. Dorothy Bryant testified that on November 24, 1972, she was working under an arrangement with the Veteran’s Administration to board certain veterans in her home, one of which was John Clay Smith. She stated that her half-brother Frank Wilson, Jr., came to her home on that date. He had an argument…