Not Guilty

Jury to Decide If Aaron Smith Committed Murder, Manslaughter, or Not Guilty

Alabama News Network Staff,
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by Alabama News Network Staff

The jury has heard the testimonies and closing statements. On day 5 of the Aaron Cody Smith murder trial, the jury will start deliberations and decide Smith’s fate. Before deliberations, Judge McLaughlin charged the jury stating, the jury must carefully consider entire evidence in the case and it must be beyond a reasonable doubt of his guilt. While charging the…

Man Accused of South Alabama Massacre Pleads Not Guilty

Darryl Hood,
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by Darryl Hood

A Mississippi man accused of killing five people in a south Alabama home with blows from an ax and gunshots has pleaded not guilty. Authorities say 27-year-old Derrick Dearman of Leakesville, Mississippi, attacked the three men and two women as they slept Aug. 20 and then kidnapped his estranged girlfriend, who had sought shelter in the house to get away…