Thompson v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree and a sentence to life imprisonment.

It is a companion case to Flanagan v. State, Ala.Cr.App.,369 So.2d 46 (1979) and Charlene Madison Thompson v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 369 So.2d 50, cert. denied, Ala., 369 So.2d 52 (1979). In each of the cited cases, a conviction of each defendant-appellant for murder in the first degree of Veronica Wilson, the alleged victim in this case, was affirmed. The evidence in the case under consideration, as well as in the other two cases, shows without dispute that the victim was brutally slain by…