Vining v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree and a sentence of imprisonment for life.

According to the undisputed evidence, Claudia Mable Coleman was killed by a shot fired from a .38 caliber pistol while it was in the right hand of defendant. She was the mother of Linda Sue Vining, the former wife of defendant. They had been divorced from each other about nine months at the time of the alleged homicide. Defendant had gone to the home where his former wife was living with her sister, next door to the home of their mother, about 3:00…