Brown v. State

264 So.2d 529 (1971)

Samuel BROWN, alias

v.

STATE.

6 Div. 128.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

January 26, 1971.

Rehearing Denied March 2, 1971.

Michael J. Romeo, Billy Church, Birmingham, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Joseph Victor Price, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

GATES, Judge.

First degree murder: sentence, death by electrocution.

I

Brown, Irving Crawford and Gloria Jean Cannon left her home early in the morning May 4, 1969, in Crawford's car and drove to the cargo yard of Mercury Freight Lines. There Brown and Crawford stole a carton purporting to contain a power…