Naylor v. State

The appellant, Ezra Ladon Naylor, was convicted of first degree murder, as charged, after a jury trial and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He appeals and raises two issues.

Naylor first asserts that the trial court erred by admitting into evidence, over his objection, enlarged (i.e. 20 X 30) photographs of the fatal head wounds sustained by the victim during the testimony of the medical examiner. Naylor does not contend that the photographs themselves failed to meet the relevancy requirement or that they were otherwise too graphic. Rather, he merely asserts…