State v. Mills

OPINION

FLÓREZ, Judge.

¶ 1 Following a jury trial, appellant Aex Cruz Mills was convicted of the murder of his estranged wife, N., and was sentenced to a mitigated term of twenty-five years to life in prison. Appellant raises four issues on appeal, none of which merits reversal.

FACTS

¶2 We view the evidence in the light most favorable to sustaining the verdict and resolve all inferences against appellant. State v. Atwood, 171 Ariz. 576, 832 P.2d 593 (1992). Several years before N.’s murder, appellant had received an $850,000 settlement from an automobile accident. Approximately one year later,…