Ellis v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Presiding Judge:

On June 26, 1979, at approximately 11:15 p. m., Stephen Stack was severely beaten and abducted from his home. He was taken in his own car to a rural location and shot once in the head and twice in the back chest area. Early the next morning a local farmer discovered Stack’s body lying in the weeds next to his car.

Two spent .380 caliber projectiles were found embedded in the passenger door of Stack’s automobile and a third projectile was recovered from a nearby dirt bank. Viet Nam era army boot impressions were discovered at the rural death scene and around the…