Duvall v. State

Hunt, Justice.

Following a jury trial, Elena Markette Duvall was found guilty of the murder of Calvin Shivers and was sentenced to life imprisonment. She appeals, enumerating as error the trial court’s refusal to require the co-defendant to testify, the admission into evidence of the victim’s employment status, and the trial court’s failure to charge the jury as to evidence of a criminal defendant’s good character.

On her way to the victim’s apartment, where the murder was committed, the defendant warned a neighbor that she was about to kill the victim. The defendant had threatened to kill the…