Morrison v. State

Clarke, Presiding Justice.

On January 9, 1987, Earnest Morrison raped and murdered the wife of his uncle by marriage (his uncle’s first wife was Morrison’s aunt). Morrison, a drifter, had stayed with the couple for a few days until his uncle told him he would have to get a job or leave. The day he was supposed to leave he waited until the uncle left for work and then attacked the wife. According to Morrison, he was going to tie her up with duct tape and rape her, but she struggled so hard and was so strong that he wound up killing her. He took her car and some valuables and went to Tennessee,…