Dear Jury Members: Mr. David Eldrige should be found guilty of the murder of Mr. Armes. Although the defense claims he is not guilty, he is guilty because his fingerprints were found on the spatula that killed Mr. Eldrige, There was also no sign of a break-in but the register was empty, the safe was open, and the recipe was gone. Also, David had the motive to kill Mr. Armes because he had not been given a raise. The first reason is that Mr. Armes was killed with a metal spatula, and David Eldridge’s fingerprints were on the spatula. Mr. Armes was found dead inside the Family Fun Restaurant. His throat had been cut. The coroner concluded that the wound on Mr. Armes’s throat was caused by a metal spatula. There was a spatula found next to the body and it was covered in Mr. Armes’s blood, but so was everything else around it. The spatula had David’s fingerprints, so David was the last person to touch it and police think that it was the murder weapon. The second reason is there was no sign of a break-in. The Family Fun cash register was empty. The safe was open, and the Super Burger recipe was missing. David Eldrige was the only person other than Mr. Armes with a key to the restaurant and the combination to the safe. After a …show more content…
Armes. He was furious that he had not been given a rise and desperate because the bank was about to respond to his house. He killed Mr. Armes, rode him, and stole his famous Super Burger recipe so that he could sell it. Sandy Smith testified that Elidrige was desperately in need of money because the bank was going to repossess his house. She said Eldirige had recently asked Mr. Armes for a raise. Mr. Armes denied this, stating that the business wasn’t doing so well and there wasn’t enough money to give anyone a raise. Eldridge was pretty upset. This shows that Eldirge was mad at Mr. Armes and that he needed money so the perfect way was to kill Mr. Armes and steal the money out of the cash