Brand v. State

The appellant, Scottie Lee Brand, was convicted of third-degree domestic violence (harassment), a violation of §13A-6-132, Ala. Code 1975. The trial court sentenced him to serve a term of twelve months at hard labor in the county jail, but suspended the sentence and placed him on unsupervised probation for twenty-four months. The appellant filed a "Motion for Post-Conviction Judgment of Acquittal," which the trial court summarily denied. This appeal followed.

The victim, Drenda Holcomb, testified that she and the appellant met in the summer of 2003; that they hung out together, went to movies…