Hall v. State

QUINN, Justice.

Ricky Hall appeals from a judgment convicting him of capital murder. In seven points of error, he contests the legal and factual sufficiency of the evidence, the court’s refusal to admit evidence regarding the results of a polygraph taken by a witness, the court’s admission of testimony by a blood spatter expert, and the court’s failure to submit an instniction further defining an element of the crime of capital murder. We affirm.

Factual Background

During the late evening hours of May 31, 1996, Robert Lee “R. L.” Draper, a physically diminutive man in his 50’s, went to the home…