Trammell v. State

HARRIS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of fifteen years. At arraignment he interposed the plea of not guilty.

Appellant is white and the deceased was a non-white female. She was his mistress or paramour. He was a partner in a sales company being operated in Bessemer, Alabama. The deceased came to work for the company in the summer of 1967 and in two or three weeks thereafter the affair began and continued until shortly before appellant shot and killed her on May 8, 1970.

The deceased lived in…