Opinion ID: 1106169
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 16

Heading: there was error in allowing the admission into evidence of irrelevant photographs from the murder scene where all factors relevant to charges against the appellant had been stipulated by defense as being accurate and truthful.

Text: Ladner complains of the introduction into evidence of four (4) photographs by the State. Exhibit 20-E is a photograph of the victim introduced to identify some of the jewelry which was taken in the robbery. Exhibits 21 and 25 are photographs of the victim's pajama-clad body, which the State asserts were relevant to show the details surrounding the commission of the murder and the fact that there was no jewelry on the body. Exhibit 66 shows only a walking cane lying on the floor of the victim's residence. The rest of the picture showing the body of Holden's mother, the other victim, was excised. There was no claim that the photographs were gruesome. The admissibility of photographs rests within the trial judge's sound discretion. This Court will not reverse a lower court on the ground that photographs of the deceased were admitted into evidence, unless the lower court abused its discretion. Marks v. State, 532 So.2d 976, 980 (Miss. 1988); McFee v. State, 511 So.2d 130, 134-35 (Miss. 1987). There is no merit in this issue.