Bramblet v. Cox

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Linda P. Bramblet sued her husband, Donnie, for divorce, and he took up a separate abode, leaving their seven-year-old daughter, Stephanie, in Linda’s custody. Early in the morning of the day a hearing was to be held in the divorce action Linda was killed, through strangulation and stabbing, by a male person, in Stephanie’s presence. Stephanie told the police that the assailant “looked like my daddy, but it didn’t sound like daddy * * * he wore a coat like daddy’s coat * * * his work coat.” Donnie was indicted for murder on the accusation of having killed Linda.

After…