State v. Taylor

HIGGINS, Chief Justice.

Everett D. Taylor was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree and sentenced to thirty years imprisonment. The court of appeals ordered a new trial because the trial court erred by excluding evidence of a subsequent burglary of the victim’s home and by admitting into evidence a knife found in the kitchen drawer of the victim’s apartment. This Court granted transfer to determine: (1) whether the trial court erred in refusing defendant’s evidence of a no-force burglary of the murder victim’s home committed subsequent to the murder where there was no evidence…