Winegarner v. State

OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

The conviction was for murder with malice; the punishment, thirty (30) years.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. Appellant was convicted as a principal for the murder of Sophia Giovanni about 4:30 A.M. on July 2, 1971, in the robbery with Bobby Bell of a Seven-Eleven store which was operated by deceased. She was cut and stabbed to death.

By his first ground of error, appellant complains of the admission in evidence of photographs of the body of the victim as she was found after the murder, lying in pools of blood.

It is well established that since a…