Legal Opinion
Connolly v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided May 17, 1991PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
602 So.2d 443 (1990)
Rodney CONNOLLY
v.
STATE.
1 Div. 90.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
November 30, 1990.
On Return to Remand May 17, 1991.
Rehearing Denied June 28, 1991.
Elizabeth H. Shaw, Mobile, for appellant.
Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Robert E. Lusk, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
BOWEN, Judge.
The appellant, Rodney James Connolly, was originally convicted and sentenced to life without parole for the 1983 capital murder-robbery of Kathy Jo Sands. That conviction was reversed on appeal because of the trial court's failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of…
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