Robinson v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Steve Robinson was charged with first-degree murder, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and abuse of a corpse after police questioned him in the disappearance of Peggy Burns. Burns, who was Robinson’s stepsister, 1 had not been heard from since November of 2000, shortly after she moved in with Robinson and his wife, Shirley. Although Robinson initially denied knowing anything about her disappearanee, he eventually claimed to the police that he had shot her in self-defense and then burned her body in a burn pit behind his house outside of Dumas. Robinson was tried in…