Redfield v. State

Marshall, Justice.

The defendants, tried jointly, appeal from their convictions of murder and their life sentences.

1. The verdict was authorized by the evidence as to both appellants.

The corpus delicti was established by eyewitness testimony that appellant Stone, with the aid of appellant Redfield, shot the victim twice under circumstances of express and implied malice. The apparent motive for the shooting arose from the fact that Stone recently had been forceably evicted from his apartment by his landlord, the victim. The state’s expert witness, Dr. Tate, testified that the victim had died…