Brown v. State

NAHMIAS, Justice.

Appellant Corey Allen Brown was convicted of felony murder based on child cruelty in connection with the death of two-year-old Prince Davis, Jr. Appellant contends that the evidence presented at his trial was insufficient to support his conviction; that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to object to the jury instructions on proximate causation and by failing to request a mistrial during closing arguments; and that the trial court erred by giving a jury instruction on prior consistent statements. We affirm.

1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the…