Adams v. State

Benham, Justice.

Appellant Larry Adams, Sr., appeals his malice murder conviction for the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend.

1. In a recorded police interview played to the trial jury, appellant admitted that he bought the murder weapon, a .22 caliber rifle, a week prior to the victim’s death, and that, on October 24, 2005, he broke into the victim’s home and shot her when it appeared to him that she was calling her new boyfriend. The medical examiner testified that the victim had at least seven gunshot wounds and that she died of multiple gunshot wounds. The evidence adduced at trial and…