Thompson v. State

BOEHM, Justice.

Jerry K. Thompson was convicted of two counts of murder,1 two counts of robbery,2 and one count of carrying a handgun without a license.3 The trial court sentenced Thompson to death for the murders and imposed a term of years for the other convictions. To *228prove that Thompson was the perpetrator, the State presented evidence that he stole the murder weapon, a handgun, in the course of committing a different murder a month earlier. Although this testimony was admitted only to show that the gun had been in Thompson’s possession before the crimes in this case, the State was allowed…