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Brock v. State

Citations

  • 275 S.W.3d 586
  • 2008 WL 5334709

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  • “Although motive is not an essential element of murder, evidence of motive is admissible because it is a circumstance tending to prove the commission of the offense.”
  • prior hostile offenses by defendant against victim six years before her death admissible
  • evidence of defendant’s prior instances of domestic violence against his wife in trial for her murder were not unfairly prejudicial where (1) the evidence explained their relationship and established the motivation for her murder; (2

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Judges: Quinn, Campbell, Pirtle

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