Braxton v. State

BOOKOUT, Judge.

Murder in the first degree; sentence: life imprisonment.

Frank Walton, the deceased, and appellant Braxton, long time acquaintances, were neighbors in adjoining duplex apartments in Birmingham, Alabama. Their relationship through the years was shown to have been rather stormy, with appellant having cut the deceased across the face in a dispute in 1967.

Testimony revealed that on January 8, 1977, the day of the murder, the deceased and appellant had become involved in a brief exchange of words at the apartment after an old car of appellant’s accidentally struck a truck which…