Nelson v. State

THOMAS, Justice.

In an indictment signed by the State Attorney of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, it was charged that the appellant killed one Sarah Jane Campbell by stabbing her with an ice pick and that his act effectuated a premeditated design to dispatch his victim. A jury found the appellant guilty without a recommendation of mercy and the judge sentenced him to death

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict is presented by appellant’s assigning as error the denial by the court of a motion for directed verdict made at the conclusion of the state’s evidence. Duke v. State, 137…