Legal Opinion
Smith v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided March 14, 1968No. 4 Div. 214PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*272LAWSON, Justice.
A jury of Pike County, Alabama, found Burnist Orville Smith guilty of the first degree murder of Mrs. Foy Post Boone and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. Judgment and sentence were in accord with the jury’s verdict. Smith has appealed to this court.
Mrs. Boone, eighty-one years of age, lived alone in her home on North Brun-didge Street in Troy, Alabama. Around two o’clock on Sunday afternoon, December 15, 1963, Lester Little, who lived in the home of Mrs. Jean Enzor, which was situated next door to Mrs. Boone’s home, went to the home of Mrs. Boone “to check the…
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