Moore v. State

W. J. HARALSON, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

The appellant was charged with first degree murder. He was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment.

The testimony is voluminous, but we think a succinct statement thereof will be sufficient upon which to base our conclusions of law hereinafter set out.

On March 16, 1971, the appellant, with his family, lived in an apartment in a housing project on Mason Court in Huntsville, Alabama.

Sarah Fletcher, the mother of the deceased, A. T. Fletcher, Jr., lived in the same project across the street from…