Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama August 21, 1992, CR-91-166 (Simmons v. State)

The appellant was convicted of reckless murder, in violation of § 13A-6-2(a)(2), Code of Alabama 1975, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The evidence presented by the State tended to show the following: Sylvia Rivers testified that she and her 3-year-old child were driving to her grandmother's house when she saw the appellant standing in the "bed" of a pick-up truck erratically firing a