Loy v. State

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

The appellant, Michael Marvin Loy, appeals his conviction for solicitation to commit first-degree murder by use of a homemade bomb and his sentence to a term of forty-two years. He asserts as grounds that it was reversible error for the circuit court to admit into evidence 1) an audiotaped conversation between Loy and an informant, and 2) a video depiction of certain demonstrations and a simulated explosion of the bomb. We hold that neither point has merit, and we affirm.

On March 9, 1991, at about 3:00 p.m., an informant, Donald Hurt, advised the Garland County…