State v. Walsh

LeGRAND, Justice.

This one-issue appeal challenges the introduction at defendant’s trial of evidence concerning a prior crime. We affirm the judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment.

The body of Eleanor A. Jennings, a sixty-year-old widow, was discovered in her Carter Lake home on August 18, 1979. She had been strangled and had probably been sexually abused as well. Defendant came under suspicion because several witnesses identified him as the person who had been with Mrs. Jennings shortly prior to her death. He was subsequently charged with her murder, tried by a jury, and convicted.

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