McLeod v. State

Leon McLeod, Jr., was indicted and convicted for the murder of James D. McKissick, see Alabama Code 1975, § 13A-6-2. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The appellant raises one issue on appeal. He claims that the trial court erred by failing to suppress his statement to police officers because, he says, the statement was involuntary.

The evidence tended to show that on September 27, 1994, Acadena King Carstarphen, her boyfriend, James McKissick, and Cynthia McLeod, the appellant's wife, went to the McLeod's house to "cook" some cocaine. Leon McLeod came home while Carstarphen and Cynthia…