DEMOS v. STATE

1 Div. 664.

329 So.2d 646 (1976)

Christopher J. DEMOS v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

March 30, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd E. Taylor, Fairhope, for appellant.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Ellis D. Hanan, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree of his wife.

The evidence is undisputed that he killed his wife with a butcher knife. His stepdaughter, a thirteen-year-old girl, was an eyewitness against him. He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. There was no evidence of insanity. There was abundant evidence that at the time of the crime he was under the influence of toluene, which he...

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