Wood v. State

The appellant was indicted for the capital offense of robbery when the victim is intentionally killed in violation of Ala. Code § 13-11-2 (a)(2) (1975). In accordance with the principles stated in Beck v. State, 396 So.2d 645 (Ala. 1980), the jury found him guilty of first degree murder and fixed his punishment at life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The state's evidence revealed that the deceased, James Crawford Delones, a deputy sheriff with the Dickson County Sheriff's Department in Tennessee, left Dickson on July 10, 1979, headed for Decatur, Alabama, in his father's 1977 Plymouth…