People v. Falkner

This is an appeal of right from a jury verdict of guilty of first-degree murder.1 We recite the facts and allegations of fact. On the evening of August 20, 1968, Ernest Rotholer and his wife were sitting on the front porch of their home in the City of Jackson. Because of oncoming darkness Mr. Rotholer decided, it was testified by his wife, to put his car away and close the garage door. While awaiting her husband’s return she heard a “terrific blast of something”. Hearing another noise in the back of the house, she ran toward the sound and found her husband lying unconscious on the floor…