McCannon v. State

Thompson, Justice.

Franklin Joseph McCannon, Jr. was convicted by a jury of the malice murder of Jesse Thomas “Jay” Black. The State’s evidence showed that the day before the murder, Black held a loaded gun to McCannon’s head in the parking lot of the wood processing plant where they were both employed. After this incident but prior to the murder, McCannon’s co-workers heard him make threats against Black. On the day of the murder, McCannon asked a friend to take him to Wal-Mart so that he could buy bullets. As the friend was driving, McCannon fired four shots from the murder weapon at a road…