Mills v. Commonwealth

JOHNSTONE, Justice.

On August 30, 1995, Arthur L. Phipps was stabbed to death. Appellant, John Mills, was convicted of Phipps’s murder, first-degree burglary, and first-degree robbery and was sentenced to death. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right, raising some thirty-two issues on appeal. We affirm both the conviction and the sentence.

Phipps’s son-in-law, Terry Sutherland, discovered Phipps’s body. On the day of the murder, Sutherland twice went to Phipps’s house. On the first occasion, he left Phipps alive and in good spirits. Upon arriving the second time, he discovered a trail of…