Hilliard v. State

The appellant, Lorenzo Hilliard, was convicted of murder and was sentenced to 99 years in prison and was fined $10,000.

The state's evidence tended to show that on the evening of April 29, 1991, Christine Wheeler, the appellant's sister, found the body of Roy C. Sullen in the appellant's house trailer. The victim had over 30 knife wounds in his body and he died as a result of internal bleeding and hemorrhaging.

Approximately 30 minutes after the body was discovered and police had arrived, the appellant walked up to the house trailer. He told police that "I did what I had to do, that was I…