Stewart v. State

Benham, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of malice murder in connection with the 1989 stabbing/strangulation death of his girl friend.1 The State *844presented evidence that appellant and the victim had had a violen! relationship; that appellant had threatened to kill the victim foui days before she was murdered; that he was searching for her in the early morning hours of the day she was killed; that he was the persor with whom the victim was last seen alive; and that he had scratcl marks on his neck when he was picked up for questioning at the home of the victim’s mother the day following the…