Sirmans v. State

Grice, Presiding Justice.

The appellant, James Paschal Sirmans, Jr., appeals from a judgment, conviction and sentence for the murder of Willie Mae Sirmans. He was indicted by the grand jury of Thomas County, tried and convicted by the superior court of that county. Sentence of death was imposed therein. No motion for new trial was filed but he asserts three enumerations of error.

The first is that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence over objection a photograph of the nude body of the victim on a slab in a mortuary.

The objection was that the photograph was prejudicial, irrelevant…