BOWEN v. STATE

8 Div. 106.

145 So.2d 421 (1962)

William F. BOWEN, Jr. v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 4, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jas. W. Baker, Huntsville, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Geo. D. Mentz, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


SIMPSON, Justice.

The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. The appeal is under the automatic appeal statute. Consistent with our duty in such cases, we have searched the record for prejudicial error but find none.

The appellant stabbed the victim fourteen times with a kitchen butcher knife, resulting in her death. The facts are revolting in the extreme and it would be purposeless to relate them here...

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