State v. White

PARKER, Justice.

Defendant Timothy Lionell White was indicted on 25 October 1999 for the first-degree murder of Ewie Lane Vaughn. On 7 August 2000 defendant entered a plea of guilty to the charge of first-degree murder. After a capital sentencing proceeding, the jury recommended that defendant be sentenced to death; and the trial court entered judgment accordingly. For the reasons discussed herein, we conclude that defendant’s capital sentencing proceeding was free from prejudicial error.

The State’s evidence tended to show that defendant lived with his parents in a mobile home on Tobaccoville…