Stowe v. State

The appellant was charged, tried, and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life in the penitentiary.

He relied upon self-defense under his general plea of not guilty. In offering testimony, directed to this plea, the appellant testified in substance that on the day of April 26, 1970 he had been with Rosie Lee Maddox, the sister of the deceased, George Woods. Sometime later on in the forepart of the night he returned to her apartment in a housing project in Fayette, Alabama, to see her and found her sitting in an automobile in front of the apartment.

He saw her but did not…