Eiland v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, imprisonment for life.

The appellant says the trial court erred in failing to submit a charge on circumstantial evidence after appellant raised such failure by timely objection to the Court’s charge. The complaint is well taken, and we reverse.

The son-in-law of the deceased entered her house around 10:00 P.M. on Sunday, July 9, 1972, through an unlatched screen door. He found the body of the seventy-six year old woman on her bedroom floor. The medical examiner stated that in his opinion death occurred sometime between…