Winton v. State

The appellant, Jaris Ladell Winton, was convicted of murder, in violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The evidence tended to show that on the evening of June 28, 1988, and during the early morning hours of June 29, 1988, the appellant and a group of other young people were at the Regis Inn on Memorial Parkway in Huntsville. The young people were divided into two groups; the two groups generally did not get along socially with each other. Just before the incident, the groups had gathered in the parking lot just outside…