Wallace v. State

GRANT, Justice.

Billy Ray Wallace appeals his conviction of capital murder and the trial court’s imposition of a life sentence when the jury could not reach a verdict at the punishment stage.

Wallace raises issues concerning the trial court’s failure to suppress tape recordings and the admission of the tape recordings into evidence, the introduction of Wallace’s statements and the transcript of a prior proceeding, the failure of the trial court to submit a requested charge on the voluntariness of the confession, the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission of the testimony of Wallace’s…