Dalton v. State

Weltner, Justice.

Gene Perry Dalton was convicted of the murder of Billy Ray Allen by shooting him in the head with a shotgun. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In his two enumerations of error, Dalton complains that arresting and investigating officers failed to take fingerprints from the barrel of the shotgun, and that certain photographs of the deceased and of the crime scene, admitted initially without objection, were presented to the jury by slide projections, over objection of the defendant, and that such presentation was a duplication of evidence and inflammatory.

1. In his statement…