(Download) "Frank Flowers v. State Alabama" by Supreme Court of Alabama ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Frank Flowers v. State Alabama
- Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
- Release Date : January 12, 1959
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
Description
MERRILL, Justice. This is an appeal under the statutes providing for an automatic appeal from a death sentence, Code 1940,
Tit. 15, 382(1) et seq. Appellant was indicted and convicted for killing his wife, Dorothy. Appellant and Dorothy lived two doors from Clara McIntosh.
The State's evidence showed that appellant had given Dorothy a physical beating in the front door of their house and Clara
had prevailed upon him to desist and Dorothy had come over to Clara's house for treatment of her wounds. Appellant came to
Clara's house a few minutes later, left, and subsequently returned and began to stab Dorothy with a butcher knife. Five stab
wounds were made on her body and she died on the floor at Clara's house. The police were called, and they arrested appellant.
He made a voluntary oral and, later, a voluntary written statement that he killed Dorothy, the only provocation being that
she was drunk or drinking and was spending his money. There was testimony that when appellant stabbed Dorothy the first time,
she fell to the floor, that he got astride her body and stabbed her several more times, then got up and put his foot on her
body and pressed the body four or five times causing blood to spurt from the wounds he had inflicted. One of the police officers
who made the arrest testified that appellant stated that 'he went up there to kill her and if he had not, he would have went
back and finished it.' Appellant entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. There is ample evidence
in the record to support the verdict of the jury.