State v. Conner

McCORMICK, Justice.

Defendant appeals his conviction and sentence for first-degree murder. He was tried and found guilty by a jury upon an indictment charging him with murdering Maureen Ann Connolly in Jones County on March 10, 1974. We affirm the trial court because we find no merit in defendant’s eighteen assignments of error.

The issues in this appeal can best be understood against the background of a summary of the State’s evidence. That evidence tended to show that in the evening of March 8, 1974, defendant Atwell Junior Conner discussed the possibility of committing a robbery with two…