Welch v. State

235 So.2d 906 (1970)

Andy WELCH, Jr.

v.

STATE.

1 Div. 27.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

May 5, 1970.

Ralph Kennamer, Mobile, for appellant.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Richard F. Calhoun, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

CATES, Judge.

This appeal from a second degree murder conviction carrying a twelve year penitentiary sentence was originally assigned to our Presiding Judge.

I

September 7, 1968, appellant fired a shotgun at his wife. The shot hit the lower thigh of her right leg. The surgeon to whom she was sent gave her no drug to offset blood coagulation, according to the State's…