TRAMMELL v. STATE

6 Div. 612.

298 So.2d 666 (1974)

Norman Lee TRAMMELL v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

July 30, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spencer T. Bachus, III, Birmingham, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Walter S. Turner, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


CATES, Presiding Judge.

Second degree murder: sentence, thirty years imprisonment.

I

The only eye-witness to Trammell's alleged fatal stabbing of William Causey was Pauline Bertramm. Some six months before the trial she had suffered a stroke which affected her speech. Consequently, she was allowed—over objection—to be interrogated by leading questions. Her answers were given mostly by negative or affirmative nods of the head. See Quinn...

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