McGahee v. State
Decision Date | 30 May 2003 |
Citation | 885 So.2d 191 |
Parties | Earl Jerome McGAHEE v. STATE of Alabama. |
Court | Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals |
J. Drew Colfax, Montgomery, for appellant.
William H. Pryor, Jr., atty. gen., and Henry M. Johnson and Beth Jackson Hughes, asst. attys. gen., for appellee.
Earl Jerome McGahee was convicted of two counts of capital murder and was sentenced to death following the September 11, 1985, murders of his ex-wife, Connie Brown, and Cassandra Lee. He now appeals from the denial of his Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition. We affirm.
On direct appeal of McGahee's conviction and death sentence, this Court summarized the evidence presented at McGahee's trial. McGahee v. State, 554 So.2d 454 (Ala.Crim.App.1989). In that opinion, we stated:
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