Long v. State

GIVAN, Judge.

A jury trial resulted in a conviction of Murder. Appellant was sentenced to a term of sixty (60) years.

The facts are: On November 18, 1987 at approximately 10:30 p.m., Mayme Sanders, the victim in this case, was speaking on the telephone with her daughter-in-law, Connie Sanders. Mayme interrupted the conversation because someone was knocking at her door. She told Connie that the person at the door was “one of Henry Long’s boys,” whom she described as “high.” When Mayme failed to appear for work the following day, a fellow employee and Mayme’s daughter, went to her home where they…