Rucker v. State

Benham, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted appellant Tony Rucker of malice murder in connection with the 1997 death of Linda Gail Tate, the mother of Rucker’s son. Police responding to an emergency call placed by the victim’s nine-year-old son found the victim in the back passenger seat of a car parked in front of the home she shared with appellant and their son. The boy testified that he and his parents had driven to a nearby town where he and his mother had dropped appellant off at a pool hall. The child testified that when he and the victim returned to pick up appellant, appellant got in the…