State v. Mansfield

PREWITT, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of attempted capital murder and sentenced to imprisonment for ten years. He was charged with placing dynamite caps and dynamite in a pickup truck which caused an explosion when its owner, Frances Neporandny, started it. She was knocked unconscious and injured, but not killed. At the time of the explosion Mrs. Neporandny was attempting to collect back child support from her ex-husband, Eugene Musgraves. Defendant is his brother-in-law.

Defendant contends in his first point that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to suppress evidence regarding…