Hall v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Melvin Hall, appeals from his life without parole sentence for the capital murders of Jimmy and Gloria Owens. He raises four points of error, none of which have merit.

It was alleged and admitted that in the early hours of October 5, 1983, Hall entered the Owenses’ mobile home and shot and killed them both. Mrs. Owens was appellant’s former wife. The defenses of voluntary intoxication and mental disease or defect were raised as both full and partial defenses.

The state offered evidence of threats by appellant toward the victims for several months prior to their deaths.…