Hodge v. State

David Newbern, Justice.

This is a capital-murder case in which Aaron Michael Hodge, who was seventeen years old at the time of the crime, was convicted of shooting to death his mother, Barbara Flick, his stepfather, David Flick, and his half-sister, Andria Flick in their home at Rector. Mr. Hodge was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for each of the killings. He raises numerous points of appeal to be discussed below, but none of them presents reversible error; thus, we affirm the convictions.

In his testimony at the trial, Mr. Hodge admitted that he had taken Mr. Flick’s pistol from…