Hamilton v. State

COLEMAN, Justice.

Defendant appeals from conviction for murder in the second degree.

Evidence for the state tends to show that defendant, a man, and deceased, who was a woman, and defendant’s brother and another woman, lived together in a house in Mobile; that none of these four persons were married to each other; that deceased and defendant slept together in the same bed; that about 2:30 p. m. on a day in February, 1966, defendant stabbed deceased nine times with a butcher knife, and that deceased died as the result of the wounds.

Defendant pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of…