Johnson v. State

THOMPSON, Justice.

Defendant Temyarance Deyale Johnson was convicted of malice murder in connection with the shooting death of Demarcus Waddell. He appeals, assigning error to the sufficiency of the evidence and the performance of trial counsel. Finding no error, we affirm.

Viewing the evidence in a light favorable to the verdict, we find the following: On the evening of November 27, 2005, the victim was shot and killed outside of a Pizza Hut, where he worked. Witnesses described his attacker as a light-skinned African-American male dressed entirely in black and wearing a black mask. Police…