Johnson v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The alleged victim was his wife. Except as to the whereabouts of appellant at the time of the homicide and as to the identity of the murderer, little conflict, if any, is to be found in the evidence.

About 9:30 P.M. November 29, 1974, the body of the victim was observed in the front of a driveway at 302 North Lena Street in Dothan. A patrol car was approaching at the time, and it was flagged down. Her head was battered and bloody; there were…