State v. Choice

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

WILENTZ, C.J.

We reverse the Appellate Division and reinstate the conviction and sentence rendered in the trial court.

Defendant, Thomas Choice, was tried and convicted of the murder of his former wife. His defense was an alibi — he was somewhere else when decedent was killed. The contrary evidence was that defendant, rebuffed in his attempts to resume an intimate relationship with his former wife, surprised her on the porch of her mother’s home and shot her twice in the head. At no point in the case was there any contention by anyone that the evidence…