Farmer v. State

Hill, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of murder of Ronald Kitchens and sentenced to life imprisonment. The evidence authorized the jury to find the following: Defendant had been at home drinking the afternoon and evening of July 9,1979. His daughter and her husband, the victim, lived in an apartment next to him. When they returned home at about 10:00 p.m., Ronald Kitchens checked their mailbox. The defendant yelled, “Stay out of my mailbox, you all are in my mailbox all the time and I am tired of it.” It appeared from the testimony that at various times since her mother’s death, Mrs. Kitchens…