Legal Opinion
Cottingham v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided May 6, 1975No. 6 Div. 772Published
1Opinion of the Court
329 So.2d 116 (1975)
Dawson Ray COTTINGHAM
v.
STATE.
6 Div. 772.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
May 6, 1975.
Rehearing Denied February 17, 1976.
Wilder & Nelson, Birmingham, for appellant.
William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., Montgomery, and David L. Weathers, Asst. Atty. Gen., Birmingham, for the State.
CATES, Presiding Judge.
Murder in the second degree: sentence, twenty years in the penitentiary.
Cottingham, according to the tendencies of the State's evidence, talked one Odum into killing Eugene Helms. The motive was moneyHelms having recently sold a Cadillac. Odum was seen near Helms's home on the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Martin v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1964
- Southern Ry. Co. v. MilanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1940
- Nickens v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1943
- Ex Parte R. H. Byrd Contracting Co.Alabama Court of Appeals · 1934
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