Opinion ID: 1709998
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Text: White, the Tishomingo County coroner, pronounced Mary dead. White described what he found during his examination as follows: I found what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the head; entrance wound on one side, exit wound on the other side; an extreme amount of blood around the head and at the shoulders. There were no other fresh marks of trauma to the body... . After examining Mary, White went with a police officer to the motel room were she had been shot. White gave the following description of what he found: I walked in the door to a relatively small room.... As you walk through the door there is a couch to the left, a bed to the right and by the couch on the left is a small closet, and from the bed on to the back of the room is a small kitchen area and bath; at the, from the door at the far end of the couch there was a small box containing cooking utensils that had been splattered with blood and there was a pooling of blood in the box, by the box and on the carpet at the end of the couch. On cross-examination White testified that it was his opinion that Mary had been shot while on the couch. White stated he came to this conclusion [b]ecause of the size of the building and the location of the blood and where the ambulance said that they picked her up from and that would be that when they walked into the room, the victim was sitting on the couch in a slumped position, bent over the left railing face down and blood dripping to the floor.