State v. Bobby Cooksey

¶1 In September 2010 a jury in the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Musselshell County, convicted Bobby Cooksey of deliberate homicide. The District Court sentenced Cooksey to a term of fifty years in the Montana State Prison with credit for time served, and Cooksey appeals. We affirm.

¶2 Cooksey presents the following issues for review: (1) whether the District Court properly denied Cooksey’s motion for a new trial; (2) whether the District Court properly excluded Cooksey’s offered evidence concerning the presence of the drug Paxil in the deceased’s blood; (3) whether the State was…