Rhodes v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

Appellant Craig Rhodes, along with Kathy York, was charged with capital murder. The jury found both guilty of first degree murder with York sentenced to life imprisonment and Rhodes to a term of forty years. Rhodes appeals that conviction, alleging four errors for reversal.

The facts given by York and Rhodes agree in some respects and differ primarily as to the commission of the crime. Each said that on the night of the murder they had been at a bar drinking with acquaintances. They left the bar with a third person, Cecile Nelson, in a car that belonged to Liz Farrell.…