Cotney v. State

BROWN, Justice.

Amos Cotney was indicted in the Circuit Court of Clay County for murder and on his trial he was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed by the jury at twenty years in the penitentiary. From the judgment of conviction he appealed to the Court of Appeals and on February 13, 1945, that court affirmed. Ala.App., 26 So.2d 598. After application for rehearing was overruled, he invoked the jurisdiction of this court by petition for certiorari to review said .judgment of conviction. The application was set down for argument and on June 20, 1945, after…