Hall v. State

QUILLEN, Justice:

Appellant Gibson A. Hall, defendant below, appeals from his Superior Court convictions of murder in the first degree and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony. The jury was instructed as to the first offense that it could return a lesser included verdict of murder in the second degree, manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide as well as guilty as charged or not guilty.

Defendant shot and killed his mother, Anna Watson, on July 16, 1979. She was shot between the eyes, just to the right of the bridge of her nose. The doctor performing the autopsy…