Eddy v. State

Hill, Chief Justice.

The defendant in this case, Marvin Wayne Eddy, was convicted of the murder of the five-year-old son of his girl friend with whom he lived. He received a life sentence and appeals.1

The evidence showed that, after consuming about a half of a fifth of tequila and over their mother’s objection, the defendant took the victim and his seven-year-old brother, Michael, out of their trailer about 10:30 p.m. on the night of January 27,1985, for the purpose, he said, of getting some drinking water from a creek more than a mile away, because the pipes in the trailer had frozen and…