POELLNITZ v. STATE

1 Div. 183.

262 So.2d 631 (1972)

Briscoe Guy POELLNITZ v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

May 16, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor Wilkins, Jr., Bay Minette, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and John A. Yung, IV, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


TYSON, Judge.

The indictment charges murder in the first degree. Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, resulting in sentence of fifty years in the penitentiary.

The evidence is undisputed that on May 7, 1970, the appellant, Briscoe Guy Poellnitz, shot and killed one Robert Bolar with a twenty-two caliber rifle. The incident occurred in the Yearlingville community in Baldwin County, Alabama.

Bertha Bolar, wife of the deceased, testified...

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