Harris v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

A jury found appellant guilty of murder in the first degree of Flora Dean Polk by shooting her with a shotgun and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. He was sentenced accordingly.

Appellant’s first assertion of error is to the effect that the court erred in denying defendant’s motion for a new trial for the reason that at the time the alleged crime was committed there was no crime of mur*1064der in the first degree in Alabama, that such crime had been abolished and repealed by Act No. 607, Acts of 1977, which has become the Criminal Code of Alabama,…