State v. Watts

HAYDEN, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of first-degree murder. He was charged with killing his former girlfriend.

On appeal, defendant: 1) claims the trial court erred by admitting gruesome photographs showing the victim’s body after death and showing the location of multiple stab wounds on the body (he argues these photographs were cumulative of other evidence and their probative value was outweighed by their prejudicial effect); 2) challenges the admission of hearsay testimony by the victim’s sister (this testimony was admitted as an excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule); and…