State v. Owen

WYNN, Judge.

Having been convicted by a jury of the first-degree murder of Gloria Puryear, Marvin Augusta Owen seeks a new trial, contending that the trial court committed prejudicial error by: (1) admitting as evidence State’s exhibit #34, a handwritten note he allegedly wrote to Ms. Puryear before her death; (2) failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of second-degree murder; (3) sustaining the State’s objections to certain cross-examination questions his counsel asked of SBI agent Greg Tart; and (4) admitting into evidence seven bullets removed from Ms. Puryear’s body…