Johnson v. State

PATTERSON, Presiding Judge.

Paul Anthony Johnson was convicted for the murder of his wife, Frances Elizabeth Johnson (Ala.Code § 13A-6-2 (1975)), and was sentenced to life imprisonment.1 He appeals, raising six issues for review. The appellant’s primary issue is whether his motions for a judgment of acquittal, made at the close of the state’s case-in-chief and at the conclusion of all of the evidence, were erroneously denied because, he argues, evidence failed to both prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to exclude every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt.

The evidence,…