Willingham v. State

SAMFORD, Judge.

The indictment in this case was found by the Grand Jury of Pickens County at the Spring Term of Court, 1935, and charged the defendant with the'first degree murder of Thomas L. Dowdell. On October 28, 1935, the defendant was tried upon this indictment and found guilty of murder in the second degree, from which he appealed to this court, and on January 12, 1937, the judgment of conviction was reversed ’and the cause remanded. Willingham v. State, 27 Ala.App. 363, 172 So. 471.

On June 25, 1932, Thomas L. Dowdell, whose home was in Columbus, Miss., was seen leaving Columbus, Miss.,…