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Monroe v. State

Evidence that the defendant threatened to kill the victim after she ended their 20-year relationship and that the bloodstains on his jacket matched her DNA was so overwhelming that it overcame the trial court's harmful error in limiting the defendant's closing argument.

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A jury found appellant Joseph Freddie Monroe guilty of malice murder, felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime in connection with the death of Shirley McKnight.1

1. The State presented sufficient evidence from which a rational trier of fact could find appellant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of malice murder and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979. There was evidence that the victim was stabbed nine times outside her Rockdale County home and had collapsed in the roadway where she was found by relatives at approximately 9:30 p.m. One of her brothers had seen her at 7 p.m., and a sister had spoken to her by telephone around 7:30 p.m. A clerk of a nearby convenience store identified appellant in a photographic lineup as the agitated man who had a knife between 7:30 and 8 p.m. A car similar to that owned by appellant was seen parked near the victim’s home shortly after she was last seen alive.

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