Legal Opinion
Carl Albert Collins v. A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 24, 1985No. 83-2607PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Carl Albert Collins was convicted by a jury of capital felony murder and sentenced to death. The District Court 1 dismissed his petition for habeas corpus, and he appeals. We affirm the District Court’s holding that Collins’s conviction was valid. But as to the sentence of death, we agree with Collins that one of the aggravating circumstances found by the jury (that the murder was committed for pecuniary gain) duplicated one of the elements of the crime itself (that the murder was committed in the course of a robbery). This double counting of one aspect of the evidence,…
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