State v. Israel

FREEMAN, Justice.

We address two questions in this appeal of defendant’s conviction for murder — first, whether the State’s evidence was sufficient to warrant its submission to the jury, and second, whether certain evidence tending to exonerate defendant and implicate another in this crime was erroneously excluded from the jury’s consideration. We conclude that the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the State, was sufficient to warrant its submission to the jury and to sustain defendant’s conviction of murder in the first degree. But no matter how ample and damning this…