McCray v. State

Appellant raises several points from his conviction for second degree murder, the first being that the court erred in allowing into evidence six black and white photographs of the badly decomposed body of the victim over appellant’s objection that such photographs were irrelevant, inflammatory, and prejudicial. While the photographs were unquestionably gruesome, they were nevertheless relevant, either independently or as corroborative of other evidence and were therefore admissible. See Foster v. State, 369 So.2d 928 (Fla.1979); Bauldree v. State, 284 So.2d 196 (Fla.1973); State v. Young, 234…