Crymes v. State

The appellant was convicted of murder, in violation of §13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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The appellant alleges that the trial court erred in allowing the victim's wife to testify concerning the victim's children, because this evidence was immaterial and irrelevant, and it merely served to elicit the jury's passion and to prejudice it against the appellant. The appellant cites Knight v. State,273 Ala. 480, 142 So.2d 899 (1962), wherein the Court held that it was reversible error for the prosecutor to elicit testimony regarding the number of the victim's…