Coon v. State

HARWOOD, Justice.

This appellant, Clarence Cecil Coon, has been adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree of Leonard Culpepper and sentenced to death.

Coon being unable to employ counsel, the court, prior to appellant’s arraignment, appointed a member of the Marengo County bar to represent him.

Upon arraignment, appellant, through counsel, entered pleas of not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity.

This appeal is here under our automatic appeal statutes, and the counsel who represented the appellant in the trial below has filed a brief in his behalf in this court.

On the day of…