Dix v. State

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted Dennis Dix of the malice murder of his former wife, Virginia Ann Pannell, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and during the commission of a crime.1 At trial, Pannell’s divorce attorney testified that Pannell said Dix had choked her, threatened to kill her, and dry-fired a gun at her head and that no restraining order would stop him. Dix challenges the testimony as inadmissible hearsay. Because the evidence of the surrounding circumstances tends to verify the trustworthiness of Pannell’s statements after her divorce and her statements…