Criminal – Murder – Sufficiency – Malice

By Deborah Elkins
Published: September 15, 2008

The Court of Appeals affirms a defendant’s conviction for the murder of his 80-year-old wife with a .38 caliber pistol her son had given her for her protection, despite defendant’s claim at trial that his wife had asked him to shoot her because of her impaired physical condition from congestive heart failure. We conclude the evidence ...

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