DANNELLY v. STATE

2 Div. 57.

254 So.2d 434 (1971)

William Edward Ashby DANNELLY, Jr. v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pitts, Pitts & Thompson, Selma, L. Y. Sadler, John Godbold, Camden, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and David W. Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


CATES, Judge.

First degree murder (for killing his father): sentence, life imprisonment. In addition to the general issue the defendant also pled not guilty by reason of insanity.

I

The defense moved for a change of venue because of: (1) the deceased's prominence in Wilcox County; (2) the alleged abnormal newspaper and television publicity as to the killing; (3) the assignment (before formal arrest) of a highway patrolman to attend the defendant...

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