Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama December 11, 1984 (O'NEAL v. State)

On October 28, 1983, appellant Shelby Gene O'Neal and Jimmy Burns McKinney, also known as Bo Diddley, were arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of Ricky Mansell and with the attempted murder of Kenneth Jeffries. They were indicted by the Franklin County Grand Jury on November 17, 1983, on the aforementioned charges. There were two counts in the indictment.