Chaddy Brooks v. State of Mississippi
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, PRESIDING JUSTICE,
FOR THE COURT:
¶ 1. Chaddy Brooks was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to serve forty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. She now appeals, arguing that there was ■insufficient evidence to convict her, and that she received ineffective assistance of counsel. Finding no error, we affirm.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
¶2. On the morning of November 22, 2013 — while Brooks’s boyfriend, Danielle Gore, was in the bathroom — Brooks looked through his cell phone and found text messages from another ' woman. Brooks confronted Gore,…
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