Dailey v. State

Brian S. Miller, Judge.

A Ouachita County jury convicted appellant Jeffery Lynn Dailey of manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, and a firearm enhancement. Dailey was sentenced to eighteen years’ imprisonment. Daily appeals only the abuse of a corpse conviction, arguing that there was insufficient evidence to sustain it. We disagree and affirm.

The trial evidence showed that Dailey shot Sheila Dillard in his living room on March 25, 2006. Dillard’s decomposing body was recovered four days later in an unheated and locked “junk room.” She had been placed in fifty-five-gallon garbage bags, secured by…