Harris v. State

TYSON, Judge.

Appellant, Aaron Harris, Jr., was indicted for the first degree murder of Alexander White by stabbing him with a knife. The jury found the appellant guilty of murder in the second degree and fixed punishment at forty years imprisonment. The trial court then entered its judgment, setting sentence in accordance with this verdict.

Ellen White testified that she lived at 1000 Twenty-Third Place North in the City of Birmingham and was the mother of one Alexander White. She testified that she last saw her son alive during the week after the week of July 4, 1972, that she did not see her…