State v. Branam

OPINION

DAUGHTREY, Judge.

The appellant-defendant, Julius Fate Branam, was convicted of first degree murder in the shooting death of his son-in-law, Gary Burgess, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal he challenges (1) the admissibility of photographs of the deceased’s body, (2) the admissibility of the deceased’s extrajudicial statement as a dying declaration, and (3) the trial court’s failure to instruct the jury on the weight to be given a dying declaration. We find no error and we therefore uphold the conviction.

There were no eyewitnesses to the April 28, 1979 shooting that…