Hall v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Hall’s felony-murder conviction after concluding that evidence of her prior violence toward former husbands was improperly admitted to show motive but properly admitted to prove intent and absence of mistake or accident. The court also upheld admission of the daughter’s immediately recorded statements as excited utterances and held that any error concerning a later recording was harmless. The court rejected Hall’s cumulative-error claim because the assumed errors did not deny her a fundamentally fair trial.