State v. Debo

Defendant, Roy W. Debo, appellant herein, was found guilty by a jury of the crime of first degree murder, with mercy recommended, and is now serving a life sentence pursuant thereto.

It is undisputed in evidence that Debo shot and killed one Kramer Bowden near a road intersection in Marion County, about 6:20 p. m. on June 29,1965; that Debo and Bowden’s wife had been childhood sweethearts, had not seen each other for about twenty years while Debo was in the Army, and, upon his retirement therefrom, were both active in rekindling the flame which apparently had not been fully extinguished; that…