Opinion ID: 1820620
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Did the trial court err in admitting evidence over the objection of the appellant?

Text: Appellant challenges the trial court's admission of evidence regarding threats by the appellant toward the victim and testimony regarding marital discord between the appellant and the victim. Bobby Fuller, sixteen year old son of defendant, testified that his father had threatened to kill his wife if you take my baby down to Jessie Gill's. This threat against the victim is admissible as tending to prove motive, malice, premeditation and criminal intent. See Steed v. State, 396 So.2d 625 (Miss. 1981); Whittington v. State, 377 So.2d 927 (Miss. 1979). The testimony of Vicki Bales, the victim's natural daughter, was that her mother was secretly planning to leave the appellant. While evidence of marital discord that is remote in time relative to the crime is not generally admissible, May v. State, 199 So.2d 635 (Miss. 1967), the testimony in the case sub judice concerned events occurring only days before Mrs. Fuller was shot. Finding no reversible error in this record, the conviction and judgment of the trial court is affirmed. AFFIRMED. PATTERSON, C.J., WALKER and ROY NOBLE LEE, P. JJ., and HAWKINS, DAN M. LEE, ROBERTSON, SULLIVAN and ANDERSON, JJ., concur.