Adams v. State

The appellant, Michael Eugene Adams, was charged in separate indictments with the offenses of attempted murder, robbery in the first degree, rape in the first degree, and sodomy in the first degree, said offenses being in violation of §§ 13A-4-2,13A-8-41, 13A-6-61, and 13A-6-63, Code of Alabama 1975, respectively.

After a jury trial, the appellant was found guilty of attempted murder, rape in the first degree, and sodomy in the first degree. He was also convicted of theft in the third degree, a lesser included offense of robbery in the first degree.

The appellant was sentenced by the trial…