DOWDEY v. STATE

8 Div. 10.

227 So.2d 815 (1969)

Dewey L. DOWDEY v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied November 4, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andy Hamlet, Jr., Scottsboro, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Richard F. Calhoun, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


CATES, Judge.

Dowdey appeals from a judgment of conviction of second degree murder which supported a sentence of fifteen years in the penitentiary.

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According to the only other surviving eye witness, Claude McCoy, Dowdey shot and killed his wife Pauline with a 22 caliber pistol.

Later a policeman overtook a car driven by Dowdey and arrested him. Dowdey stated that his wife had been murdered by...

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