State v. Rowe

Bowman, Judge.

Appellant, Deborah L. Rowe, was convicted of murder in connection with the July 5, 1991 stabbing death of Frank Price, and was sentenced to fifteen years to life imprisonment.

Evidence presented at trial showed that Price lived in an apartment on the tenth floor of the Taylor Towers, a high-rise housing project in Columbus. Louise C. Thompson, Price’s eighty-three-year-old neighbor, told police that, on the evening of the murder, she left her apartment to go downstairs and saw Price attempting to exit his apartment. Thompson heard a woman inside Price’s apartment ask him where he…