State v. Knese

RONNIE L. WHITE, Judge.

Randall Knese appeals from his convictions for the attempted forcible rape 1 and first degree murder 2 of his wife, Karin Knese, and from the death sentence imposed for the latter crime. Mr. Knese raises fifteen points of error. We affirm.

On the morning of March 23, 1996, one of Mr. Knese’s neighbors heard a dog barking across the street and then a man yelling. When the neighbor went to her kitchen door to see what was going on, Mr. Knese, wearing only a pair of sweatpants pulled down around his ankles, opened the front door, ran into the neighbor’s house and landed on…