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CAUTHEN v. STATE

4 Div. 142.

264 So.2d 208 (1972)

J. B. CAUTHEN v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

June 13, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alton L. Turner, Luverne, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Joseph G. L. Marston, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

CATES, Judge.

Murder, second degree: sentence, twenty years.

I

The deceased, a fifty year old woman named Opal Cauthen, lived in the same house as the defendant who testified that he was not married to her.

About four o'clock in the morning of November 15, 1969, the defendant appeared at a neighbor's house. One of the neighbors, Ivry Jean McGheen, went to Cauthen's house. There lying against the front door steps she found the deceased, then...

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