Johnson v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Johnson, in a single trial, was found guilty of second degree murder under two counts. Pursuant to the verdicts the trial judge sentenced Johnson to thirty-five years and ten years, respectively, with the latter sentence to run concurrently with the first.

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This double murder was a Tobacco Road episode accompanied by adultery, al cohol, amphetamines and automobiles. The testimony was substantially the same as shown on the appeal of Johnson’s brother. See Johnson v. State, 55 Ala.App. 581, 317 So.2d 548.

Witnesses other than those in that trial were:(1) Anderson Ayers,…