BYRD v. STATE

4 Div. 58.

241 So.2d 120 (1970)

Columbus B. BYRD, alias v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

November 17, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. C. Orme, Troy, for appellant.

MacDonald, Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Joseph Victor Price, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The indictment charged first degree murder. Conviction was for murder in the second degree. Sentence was imprisonment for forty-five years.

It is the state's contention that appellant killed Amanda Byrd, his wife, by shooting her with a rifle. Defendant's pleas were not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.

State's witness Elijah White testified he lived three doors from Columbus and Amanda Byrd in the "Forty Room Building...

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