State v. Keel

MITCHELL, Justice.

The defendant presented no evidence at the guilt-innocence determination phase of his capital trial. The State’s evidence tended to show the following. On 10 July 1990, at about 10 p.m., the defendant, Joseph Timothy “Timmy” Keel, knocked on the door of Albry Thurman’s mobile home. When Thurman answered the door, the defendant told him that John Simmons, the defendant’s father-in-law, had been shot. The defendant told Thurman that it had been a drive-by shooting. Thurman testified that the defendant’s shirt was covered with blood and that Simmons was outside in *54a yellow…