Sparks v. State

TAYLOR, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Rodney Martez Sparks, was charged with attempted murder and was convicted of the lesser included offense of assault in the first degree, a violation of § 13A-6-20, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment.

The state presented evidence that, on June 7,1993, the appellant shot Tyler Davis in the abdomen in the parking lot of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house in Auburn, Aa-bama. Davis’s injuries necessitated two surgeries and the removal of a portion of his large intestine.

I

The appellant first contends that the court erred in…