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Turner v. State

The medical examiner properly based his opinion as to the cause of the victim's death of the facts contained in the redacted autopsy report that was prepared by a prior medical examiner who died before trial.

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Appellant James Steven Turner was convicted in 1998 of malice murder in connection with the January 1979 death of James Corvin.1 He appeals the judgment of conviction, and we affirm.

The victim’s body was found in April 1979 in the trunk of his girlfriend’s car in the parking lot of a hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The 1979 report created following the autopsy on the badly-decomposed body concluded that the body’s condition made it impossible to determine the cause of death, but noted that the victim was wearing an imitation leather jacket with a bullet hole, powder burns, and bloodstains, and that a .22 caliber missile was recovered from the body. The victim’s girlfriend testified that the victim left their Hixson, Tennessee, home, driving her car, on January 14, 1979, to meet a person he had not identified. Appellant’s wife testified that appellant was expecting a visit from the victim on January 14; that appellant had told her he was going “to do the victim in”; that the victim arrived at appellant’s home in Catoosa County, Georgia, and she directed him to their garage where appellant operated an automobile body shop; that she heard some noise from the garage; and that appellant then asked her to follow him in their car while he drove the victim’s car to a Chattanooga hospital parking lot.

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