O'DONNELL v. State

Clarke, Presiding Justice.

Appellant’s trial for the murder of his brother’s estranged wife resulted in a conviction and a life sentence. The evidence showed that the victim was last seen alive at appellant’s apartment where she went to buy drugs the morning of February 8, 1987.

The victim’s body was found in her automobile in an office park very close to appellant’s apartment; appellant’s apartment stood approximately two and one half minutes by car and one minute longer by foot from the murder site. The victim had been shot three times in the head at close range. The DeKalb medical examiner…