Legal Opinion
Williams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided May 31, 1983PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
461 So.2d 834 (1983)
Danny Ray WILLIAMS
v.
STATE.
6 Div. 761.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
May 31, 1983.
Rehearing Denied July 5, 1983.
Orson L. Johnson, Birmingham, for appellant.
Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Edward Carnes and William D. Little, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellee.
BOWEN, Presiding Judge.
On March 21, 1981, the defendant, after months of stalking James A. Taylor pursuant to a contract for hire, shot Taylor with a sawed-off shotgun at point blank range. He was indicted for the capital offense of "(m)urder in the first degree when the killing was done for a pecuniary or…
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