Langston v. State

BOWEN, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree. This court, in an opinion written by the Honorable Leigh M. Clark, Supernumerary Circuit Judge, held that the trial court erred when it refused to allow the appellant to explain why she told investigating officers that she had not killed the victim. Accordingly the judgment of conviction was reversed and remanded. Langston v. State, Ala.Cr.App., 348 So.2d 273, cert. denied, Ex parte State ex rel. Attorney General, Ala., 348 So.2d 277 (1977).

On retrial the appellant was found guilty of murder in the second degree and…