Moore v. State

Andree Layton Roaf, Justice.

Appellant Oscar E. Moore was convicted of capital murder and rape of a ninety-year-old neighbor, and of the burglary of her home. He was sentenced as an habitual offender to life without parole for the capital murder. He raises four points on appeal of his conviction and sentence, that the trial court erred in 1) refusing to suppress results of testing of appellant’s blood; 2) admitting DNA matching and probability testimony without conducting a preliminary hearing; 3) refusing to grant a mistrial when the state’s witness testified that appellant had admitted to…