Crouch v. State

CATES, Presiding Judge.

Second degree murder: sentence, thirty-five years imprisonment.

I

On an autumnal morning (October 11, 1971) a lone squirrel hunter was near an empty farm house in Franklin County, about five miles south of Belgreen on the old Hodges Road. His two dogs “got to sniffing around” a boarded-over well.

This Nimrod, yclept Floyd Oliver, pushed aside some of the planking and peered into the well. There some twenty-five feet below he described an object “about that long.” He could smell something, but was unable to associate the odor with anything within his experience.

Alarmed,…