Plair v. State

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

John Ell Plair appeals from his conviction of malice murder, for which he received a life sentence.

1. There was evidence from which the jury was authorized to find the following. The 24-year-old defendant lived in the house of his 61-year-old, retired father, along with the defendant’s two sisters, and shared his father’s bedroom. After graduation from high school and four years in the armed service, the defendant had lived in his father’s house for two years, during which time he had worked only about two weeks. The defendant testified that he had hated his father…