Bud Dallas Horton, Jr. v. State of Alabama

Bud Dallas Horton, Jr., an inmate of the Alabama Prison System, appeals from the denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Horton was indicted by a grand jury in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Alabama for first-degree murder. After a jury trial he was subsequently convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction, expressly rejecting the defendant’s arguments that insufficient evidence existed to support the…