Oddo v. State

TAYLOR, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Louis Allen Oddo, was convicted of murder. See § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to 35 years in the state penitentiary.

The prosecution’s evidence tended to show that on December 24, 1991, one unconscious black man and the body of another were found under the viaduct at 24th street in Birmingham. Officer Cedric Pinkard of the Birmingham Police Department testified that the man who was unconscious had apparently jumped from the bridge, but had survived. The other man, Douglas Garrett, had been beaten to death. Dr. Robert Brissie testified…