Murphy v. State

Conley Byrd, Justice.

In April, 1971, Earl Eugene Murphy, the appellant herein, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of robbery and was sentenced to 18 years. At the time of this sentence a charge of assault with intent to kill was pending against appellant. Following his incarceration for robbery, appellant’s motion for a speedy trial on the assault with intent to kill charge was granted. Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of this charge which grew out of the appellant’s shooting of the operator of the service station which he had robbed. The jury set appellant’s punishment at…