State v. Corpening

WALKER, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. At trial, the State’s evidence tended to show that in 1995 defendant was employed as a deputy with the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Department (the sheriff’s department). Sometime in June of 1995, defendant became aware that his wife (the victim) was seeing a co-worker, Robert Jackson (Jackson).

Defendant’s uncle, Lieutenant David Bates (Bates) of the Sheriff’s Department, testified that on 19 June 1995 he was in the parking lot of the sheriff’s department when he saw defendant drive in…