Knuckles v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment.

According to the undisputed evidence of the State, on the morning of December 27, 1975, Mrs. Katie McAuley, 69 years of age, was found lying on the ground on her back on the north side of Mildred Street, Montgomery. She had been killed by a bullet passing at an angle from the left side of her nose and completely transecting the brain. Soon after the arrival of her body at the funeral home, the bullet was removed from within the cranium.

The Montgomery Police…