Partridge v. State

Murder; sentence: life imprisonment.

Appellant does not raise the sufficiency of the evidence as an issue on appeal. It suffices to say that the State's evidence indicated appellant murdered his wife by stabbing her to death on or about January 9, 1981. Her body was found in an old well, buried under six feet of dirt, on January 21, 1981. The autopsy performed on the victim revealed she was stabbed nineteen times, with death resulting from a loss of blood caused by incised wounds of the neck.

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Appellant alleges that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a mistrial based upon the fact…