Nelson v. State

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The defendant was indicted for the robbery and intentional killing of James Dewey Cash in violation of Alabama Code 1975, Section 13-11-2 (a)(2). A jury found the defendant "guilty of the intentional killing of James Dewey Cash while in the course of robbing the said James Dewey Cash as charged in the indictment and fixed his punishment at death". After weighing the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, the trial judge accepted the death penalty as fixed by…