State v. Collins

MITCHELL, Justice.

The defendant, Jehue Collins, Jr., was tried non-capitally upon a proper bill of indictment charging him with the murder of David Monte Brown. The jury found the defendant guilty of first-degree murder, and the trial court entered judgment sentencing him to imprisonment for life. The defendant appealed to this Court as a matter of right.

A complete review of the evidence introduced at trial is unnecessary in resolving the issue which we find dispositive of this *57case on appeal. The State’s evidence tended to show, inter alia, that several people saw the defendant with a rifle…