Anderson v. State

Second degree murder; sentence: one hundred twenty-five years and one day imprisonment.

The body of Mrs. Rudene Edwards was found in her Phenix City home on October 20, 1976, at approximately 7:00 A.M. The cause of death was determined to be from multiple blows to the head with a blunt instrument. The bloody stock of a .22 caliber rifle was found at the scene. The home had been ransacked.

Robbery was the crime originally contemplated by the intruders. Sixty-six thousand four hundred fifty dollars ($66,450.00) had been seized by the FBI from the Edwards' safe-deposit box in the course of a…