Sutton v. State

Undercofler, Presiding Justice.

Willie Calvin Sutton was convicted by a jury on circumstantial evidence of the murders of his two apparently illegitimate infant daughters and for setting fire to his home to conceal the crimes. He received two consecutive life sentences for the murders and ten years for the arson to be served concurrently with the second life sentence. He appeals.

Appellant assigns as error the refusal of the trial judge to direct a verdict of acquittal at the close of the state’s evidence; denial of a request that the jury visit the scene of the fire; overruling of an objection…