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Guntharp v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided July 30, 1974No. 8 Div. 372PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Second degree murder: sentence, eighteen years in the penitentiary.

Guntharp allegedly, in conjunction with Stewart Weaver, killed James Floyd Davis by shooting him with a pistol. The grand jury charged them both in one indictment. They were tried separately. Code 1940, T. 15, § 319.

The tendency of the State’s evidence was that appellant and his employee, Weaver, took Davis for a ride. One, or the other, shot Davis — according to the State’s theory. The place was the parking lot of a shopping center. From there the two-coindictees went to Guntharp’s undertaking…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Douglas v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
  3. George v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1941
  4. McLean v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1849
  5. Nelson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1900

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Carpenter v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1980
  2. Eldridge v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982
  3. O'CAIN v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1991
  4. Ingle v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982
  5. Guntharp v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1975

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