Williams v. State

WELCH, Judge.

Jarvis Maurice Williams was convicted of felony murder, a violation of § 13A-6-2(a)(3), Ala.Code 1975. The trial court sentenced him to life in prison. This appeal follows.

On October 3, 2008, at approximately 11:40 a.m., Cory Landrum was shot and killed in the Alabama Village neighborhood in Prichard. Terry Parnell and C.D., a juvenile, were arrested shortly after the murder, and both individuals admitted their involvement, pleaded guilty, and testified at Williams’s trial. Parnell testified at trial that a couple of days before the murder Williams came by Parnell’s grandmother’s…