FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS RELEASE
August 10, 2015
For More Information, contact:
Luther Strange
Mike Lewis (334) 353-2199
Alabama Attorney General
Joy Patterson (334) 242-7491
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AG ANNOUNCES THAT COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
UPHOLDS CULLMAN COUNTY MURDER CONVICTION
(MONTGOMERY) – Attorney General Luther Strange announced that the
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday upheld the murder conviction
of Michael Wayne Lindsay. Lindsay, 51, of Baileyton, was convicted in Cullman
County Circuit Court in November of 2014 for the murder of his wife Tammy Lindsay.
Evidence presented at trial showed that on March 13, 2013, Tammy Lindsay
petitioned the Cullman County probate court to order Michael Lindsay to be
involuntarily committed. The court ordered that he be committed and evaluated. On
the morning of March 14, 2013, he was committed to a hospital psychiatric ward where
he was diagnosed with psychosis. At approximately 6 p.m., however, Tammy Lindsay
signed Michael Lindsay out of the hospital against medical advice, with the
understanding that he would admit himself to a different mental-health facility the
following day. Later that evening, he stabbed her to death at their home.
The case was prosecuted at trial by Cullman County District Attorney Wilson
Blaylock. Lindsay was sentenced to life imprisonment and subsequently sought to have
his conviction reversed on appeal.
The Attorney General’s Criminal Appeals Division handled the case during the
appeals process, arguing for the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to affirm the
conviction. The Court did so in a decision issued on Friday, August 7.
Attorney General Strange commended Assistant Attorney General John Davis of
the Attorney General’s Criminal Appeals Division for his successful work in this case.
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