Trawick v. State

Timothy Lamar Trawick was convicted of two counts of rape in the first degree and two counts of sodomy in the first degree. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole as a habitual offender. Two issues are raised on appeal.

I

Sheriff's Deputy Walter Ford was properly permitted to testify that he observed the defendant's bedroom and that the room was "un-neat" and "untidy." The deputy's opinion was merely a statement of "collective fact" or a "shorthand rendition of fact." Murrell v. State, 377 So.2d 1102, 1106 (Ala.Cr.App.), cert. denied, Ex parte Murrell, 377 So.2d 1108 (Ala. 1979).…