Bailey v. State

TAYLOR, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Jerry W. Bailey, was convicted of the murder of his wife, a violation of § 13A-6-2, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The state’s evidence tended to show that on August 27,1981, Mary Bailey, the appellant’s wife, was found face down in a pond in Covington County, Alabama. She had over a liter of water in her lungs. The victim was a school teacher. On the date that she drowned, she had planned to ride home from school with one of her co-workers. As they walked to the parking lot, she saw the appellant waiting for her.

The…