Hill v. State

TYSON, Judge.

The Grand Jury of Jefferson County, Alabama, indicted the appellant for the first degree murder of one Betty Jordan Howard by shooting her with a pistol. The Jury’s verdict found appellant guilty of murder in the second degree, and its verdict and judgment set punishment at fifty years and one day imprisonment in the State penitentiary.

On the night of June 7, 1968, Betty Jordan Howard and her date, one David Beasley, went to the Roebuck Bowling Lanes. When they arrived, Beasley parked his car behind the Roebuck Lanes.

Beasley testified that they bowled until about 11:30 p. m. As…