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State v. Conyers9/5/2003
object, poured Clorox in her face, and "stomped" her in the head. In order to end the attack, Mrs. Parker "went limp" and pretended to be dead.
The appellant took a cloth and wiped Mrs. Parker's face, body, and shoes. Mrs. Parker heard the appellant walking around her house and then she heard a door close. Fearing the appellant would return, Mrs. Parker lay still and waited. Finally, she felt her Siamese cat nudge her leg and, because her cat would not come out when other persons were in the house, Mrs. Parker knew the appellant was gone.
Following the appellant's departure, Mrs. Parker sat up and observed that her head was bloody and blood was running into her face. She managed to walk to her telephone and dial 911; however, because she could not hear, she was unaware that the operator answered. Mrs. Parker hung up and dialed again. Still unable to hear the operator, Mrs. Parker decided to call her family. She called her cousin, whom she informed, "I have been hurt, been beaten, come to me." Mrs. Parker then called the hospital and requested an ambulance. When an officer arrived at the scene, Mrs. Parker asked him to remove the cord from her neck, but he told her to sit down and wait for the ambulance.
Mrs. Parker's injuries were photographed at the scene of the offense and at the hospital. These photographs were entered into evidence at trial. Mrs. Parker also described her injuries at trial, stating that
my neck was quite blue bleeding; my head had two big gashes in it, [which the doctors] had to sew up; my arms were black and blue; my face was black and blue; I've got a bad place on my leg that hasn't healed yet; my back - well I had bruises all over me. And of course I was bloody.
Mrs. Parker's injuries required her to be hospitalized for seven days. At the time of trial, she was "doing fair," but she still had "some marks" on her leg and was having trouble hearing as a result of the appellant "stomping" on her head.
After she was taken to the hospital, several officers, including Officer Chad Smith and Agent Joe Craig, came to question Mrs. Parker about her attack. She provided the officers with a description of her assailant, describing him as clean-shaven with short hair. Additionally, she related that her assailant was wearing dark trousers, an orange and green windbreaker, and a white t-shirt. When the officers showed her a photo lineup, she was unable to positively identify her assailant, but did note that one of the individuals looked like her assailant but was "darker." At trial she identified the appellant as the man who attacked her.
Mrs. Parker testified that in addition to taking an undetermined amount of money, the appellant had taken a green Erin Bank money bag containing fifty-five dollars, the two hundred dollar check, a gold bracelet, her husband's wedding rings and Elgin pocket watch, her mother's wedding ring, her father's "elk ring," the victim's purse, the revolver, and various other items. None of these items were recovered. She further surmised that the appellant must have brought the brown extension cord to her house because she did not own one. Mrs. Parker testified that these events lasted more than an hour.
Officer Dalton Greenwell testified at trial that on April 6, 2001, he responded to a call regarding a "911 hangup" at 125 Front Street. When he arrived at that address, he proceeded to the back of the house where he observed that the back door was ajar and the glass had been broken out of the back door. Officer Greenwell called out to Mrs. Parker. He testified that as she approached, he observed a large cut on her head, blood covering her face, and a telephone cord and brown e
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