Legal Opinion
Neal v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided August 22, 1997No. CR-93-1208PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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The appellant, John Lionel Neal, was convicted of the capital offense of murder committed during the course of a burglary, see § 13A-5-40(a)(4), Ala. Code 1975. The jury, by a vote of 10-2, recommended that the appellant be sentenced to death; the trial court accepted the jury's recommendation and sentenced the appellant to death by electrocution.
On February 16, 1987, Mrs. Wilma Underwood was found dead in the kitchen of her house in Foley. Underwood's house had…
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