Watts v. State

Marshall, Justice.

This case is an appeal from the Floyd Superior Court following the appellant’s conviction in that court of two counts of kidnapping and one count of murder. The appellant received a life sentence for the murder conviction and two concurrent ten-year sentences for the kidnapping convictions to run consecutively to the life sentence.

The evidence introduced at trial authorized the jury in finding that the appellant shot and killed' Richard Garcia during an argument at the home of Inez Sutherland. The appellant argued at trial that he had shot the deceased in self-defense. He…