Opinion

Towles v. State

  • 168 So. 3d 124
  • 2013 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 18
  • 2013 WL 1284378
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Filed
Mar 29, 2013
Status
Published
Author
Windom
On the bench
Burke, Himself, Joiner, Kellum, Welch, Windom
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 17.3%

holding that, in the prosecution for capital murder, admission of testimony that defendant had assaulted son was reversible error

How later courts described this case

  • holding that, in the prosecution for capital murder, admission of testimony that defendant had assaulted son was reversible error

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The opinion

WINDOM, Presiding Judge,

dissenting.

For the reasons stated in my special writing in R.C.W. v. State, 168 So.3d 90, *133 99-102 (Ala.Crim.App.2012), I respectfully dissent.

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