Roa v. Howerton

How courts have described this case

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• evidence that defendant took a deadly weapon to victim’s neighborhood was so closely connected to the evidence implying malice, it was error to consider the use of the pistol again in sentencing
• evidence that defendant took a deadly weapon with him was “so closely connected to the evidence possibly used by the jury to find that the killing was done with malice that under Blackwelder, it was error for the trial court to consider the use of the pistol again in sentencing”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).