Turner v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was indicted and convicted for the murder of his neighbor, Oliver Anderson, Jr., in violation of Section 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. Sentence was life imprisonment. The sole issue raised on appeal is whether the defendant’s motion for new trial was due to be granted on the ground that the evidence of insanity was overwhelming.

Mrs. Wilma Anderson, wife of the victim, testified that when she came home from work on June 3, 1980, her husband went out into the backyard. She heard two shots, ran out the back door, and found her husband lying dead in the…