Turner v. State

Benham, Chief Justice.

Appellant James Steven Turner was convicted in 1998 of malice murder in connection with the January 1979 death of James Corvin. He appeals the judgment of conviction, and we affirm.

The victim’s body was found in April 1979 in the trunk of his girlfriend’s car in the parking lot of a hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The 1979 report created following the autopsy on the badly-decomposed body concluded that the body’s condition made it impossible to determine the cause of death, but noted that the victim was wearing an imitation leather jacket with a bullet hole, powder…