VAUGHN v. STATE

8 Div. 284.

292 So.2d 671 (1974)

Lemuel VAUGHN v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Holt and J. Douglas Evans, Florence, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Jonathan Prince Gardberg, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


ALMON, Judge.

Lemuel Vaughn was indicted for the first degree murder of his wife, Ernestine Vaughn. He was found guilty by a jury of murder in the second degree and his punishment was fixed at twenty years.

The body of the deceased was found in a "manhole" on September 10, 1971, by workmen employed to perform maintenance on a sanitation sewer. Subsequent to this discovery, a State toxicologist performed an autopsy which led to the conclusion that death resulted...

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