Dyess v. State

Assault and battery; sentence: six months' imprisonment in the Mobile County Jail.

Patricia Rutherford testified she was a student at the University of South Alabama Medical School on September 19, 1979, shortly after the occurrence of a severe hurricane. After a disagreement with her boyfriend that night, Ms. Rutherford left her apartment, which was without electrical power or potable water because of the hurricane, and walked about three miles to the University Medical School building, which had auxiliary power. After a short stay there Ms. Rutherford began to walk home. As she was walking,…