Middleton v. State

OPINION

At trial, the state presented evidence that appellant David Stephen Middleton committed murder on two separate occasions, in each case abducting a woman from her home, holding her captive in a leased storage unit, killing her, and then dumping her body. Middleton appeals, contending among other things that there was insufficient evidence to convict him and that trial on the counts relating to each victim should have been severed. We conclude that Middleton’s contentions lack merit and therefore affirm.

FACTS

The discovery of Katherine Powell’s body and resulting investigation

At around…