Thomas v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Appellant, Annette Thomas, was convicted by a jury of being an accomplice to first degree murder of Julia Golden and sentenced to life imprisonment. The state’s case showed that Thomas had a female lover named Jody Matthews who became jealous of Thomas’s relationship with Golden. The theory of the state’s case was that Thomas and Matthews went to Golden’s apartment in the early hours of September 24,1989, because Thomas wanted Golden to explain that she and Golden were not having an affair. Based upon an oral statement Thomas purportedly gave Officer Tim Osborne after…