Dickerson v. State

TYSON, Judge.

Kenneth Wesley Dickerson was charged by indictment with the first degree murder of one James Cleo Bishop. The jury found the appellant “guilty as charged,” and fixed punishment at life imprisonment in the penitentiary. The trial court entered judgment in accordance with this verdict.

William L. Allen, Jr., Acting Coroner of Jefferson County, testified that he investigated a death at 8702 Third Avenue North in Birmingham, Alabama, on February 17, 1976. Allen stated that an autopsy was performed on one James Cleo Bishop at the East End Hospital by Jay M. Glass. Allen indicated that…