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Fincher v. State

Defendant's consent to search his home cured any defect in the officers' warrantless entry onto his property.

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Christopher Cornelius Fincher appeals from his conviction for malice murder. The evidence showed that the victim, Fincher’s mother, was killed by two blows to the head. Fincher’s statement to the police, and his testimony at trial, was that he was sleeping in a chair in the front room of his home when an unknown person entered the house. In a sleep-like state, Fincher claimed, he twice struck the intruder with a bat he always kept there beside the chair. Fincher testified that it was only after striking the two blows that he realized that the intruder was his mother. He then tried to call his stepfather while washing some of the blood off the porch, and then took his mother to the hospital. The State introduced testimony that Fincher had said he hated his parents and wanted to kill them. A witness who was incarcerated with Fincher and gave the police a statement to the effect that Fincher deliberately killed his mother, refused to testify at trial on the crucial points. Blood spatter evidence and other physical evidence suggested the blows were struck out on the porch, not inside as Fincher claimed.

1. The evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to authorize a rational trier of fact to find Fincher guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of murder. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979.

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