Sellers v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Retired Circuit Judge.

Appellant, an indigent, was indicted for first degree murder. She was convicted by a jury on a plea of not guilty; sentence, life imprisonment.

The victim was defendant’s newborn infant. The evidence was largely circumstantial.

I

Appellant asserts prejudicial error in the admission in evidence of a photograph of the deceased infant after an autopsy had been performed. Appellant contends that said photograph (Exhibit # 1) was unnecessary in view of other evidence in the case; that in any event the probative value was “. . . so far outweighted by the…