Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama March 29, 1983 (Tucker v. State)

Murder; sentence: life imprisonment. Appellant was indicted under § 13A-5-31 (a)(7), Code of Alabama 1975, for the first degree murder of her husband, Jimmy Eugene Tucker, committed either for a pecuniary or other valuable consideration or for hire. The State's theory was not that the appellant had committed the actual murder, but that she had hired or caused a third party to kill her husband.