Cook v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of the offense of murder in the second degree for the killing of Marcelle Brannon. Sentence was fixed at fifty years in the penitentiary.

The evidence for the State tends to show that in the early morning hours of August 28, 1969, the defendant drove into the parking lot of the Parkway Restaurant in Dothan, Alabama, for the purpose of returning Mrs. Zooline Brannon to her parked car. Earlier in the evening of August 27, 1969, the defendant met Mrs. Brannon in the parking lot and she left her car parked while they visited several lounges together. The…