Elkie Lee Taylor, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the capital murder conviction and death sentence, holding that evidence of a prior murder was admissible to prove intent, identity, motive, and to rebut a defensive theory, that the probative value was not substantially outweighed by prejudice, and that a limiting instruction may enumerate multiple permissible purposes. The Court relied on Texas evidentiary rules and precedent to find no error in the trial court's evidentiary rulings.