Henley v. State

Lyle Brown, Justice.

This appeal comes from a second degree murder conviction. The appellant challenges the sufficiency of the circumstantial evidence to support the conviction and secondly, it is contended that the evidence "clearly shows that defendant was suffering from some mental disorder at the time the crime was committed”.

We agree that the evidence was circumstantial but we think it was sufficient to sustain the conviction. We shall briefly relate the evidence in the light most favorable to the State. (The defense produced no evidence.) Sometime during the night of June 16, 1972,…