Duke v. State

Hunt, Justice.

Linda Duke was convicted by a jury of the murder of Barry Allen White and was sentenced to life imprisonment. She appeals enumerating as error the trial court’s denial of her motion in limine seeking to prohibit the introduction of evidence of her character, the trial court’s charge to the jury, and the sufficiency of the evidence.

The defendant lived in an isolated house on a dead-end road. Following the discovery of the victim’s body outside her house, she voluntarily made two statements to authorities, and these statements were introduced into evidence. In her statements she…