State v. Music

This is a first-degree death-penalty murder case. Appellant’s grounds for appeal, seeking a new trial, are discussed separately and at some length hereinafter. We find no reversible error in appellant’s grounds for appeal. Accordingly, we deny his claim, for a new trial; we affirm the judgment and the sentence entered by the trial court, the jury’s verdict of guilty and its imposition of the death penalty.

On the evening of January 17, 1969, Traice Walters, 15 years of age, was fatally shot twice in the back with a .22 caliber rifle as he attempted to get away from four youths in an automobile…