Payne v. State

Charles Edward Payne and Raymond Andre Watts, both thirteen years old, were adjudged delinquent upon a juvenile petition charging the murder of Booker T. Williams. The juveniles were committed to the custody of the Alabama Department of Youth Services. This appeal is from that adjudication.

I. PAYNE

A

Payne's adjudication of delinquency is affirmed despite error in the admission of his extrajudicial statement.

Williams was murdered on February 9, 1985. Four days later, two Prichard police officers, investigating the murder, went to Dunbar Middle School to talk to Payne. Payne was called into the…