Sale v. State

Lyndahl Earl Sale was convicted for the murder of Connie Powell as a lesser included offense of capital murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He raises two issues on this appeal from that conviction.

I

The trial court denied the defendant's pretrial motion requesting discovery of the investigative reports of the Orange Beach Police Department and the Baldwin County Sheriff's Department concerning this case. The trial court ruled that those records were not discoverable prior to the time the officers took the witness stand. This ruling was proper under Rules 18.1(c)(1) and 18.1(e),…