State v. Tharp

This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence for the crime of aggravated murder. Evidence for the prosecution indicated that the defendant (the appellant), who had been maintaining an illicit affair with the wife of the deceased victim, late at night enticed the victim to a country road and there shot him. He was accompanied during a portion of the time by another person named Hobson who testified to hearing shots and seeing the defendant coming from behind the victim’s car. Hobson later Came into possession of the murder weapon and took it to the police. The wife of the victim testified…