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Moody v. State

Evidence that the defendant once discharged a shotgun into the bedroom in which the murder victim slept was admissible to show his motive, intent and bent of mind.

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Tommy Carlton Moody appeals from his conviction for the malice murder of Rebecca Norman.1 For the reasons that follow, we affirm. Construed to support the verdict, the evidence showed that on Monday, March 7, 1994, Norman’s relatives reported to the police that she had been missing for two days. Police, as well as her relatives and neighbors, conducted a search. On Tuesday, March 8, 1994, Norman’s shoe was found near a vacant, partially-burned house. Later that day, her body was discovered in the woods approximately 300 to 400 yards from where the shoe had been found. Her body was shoeless and partially buried. Norman’s sweater was pulled over her face. Moody’s broken-down car was 213 feet from the body, parked behind the house of Moody’s sister. Norman died of ligature strangulation and her body had been dragged, apparently by the feet, from Moody’s car to the spot where her body was discovered. Medical evidence suggested that her death likely occurred on Sunday, March 6, 1994.

Norman lived with her boyfriend, Lawrence Griffin. Nonetheless, she maintained a sexual relationship with Moody. On the morning of Sunday, March 6, 1994, Norman and Moody were seen together in the neighborhood where both lived. That afternoon, after they parted, Moody attempted to contact Norman to arrange a meeting that evening at his car; Moody often met with her in his car, and he often slept there as well. At 7:30 p.m., while at the home of a friend, Norman received a telephone call from Moody; she left her friend’s home shortly thereafter.

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