State v. Hornsby

MARTIN, Judge.

Defendant, Edward Lavonne Hornsby, appeals from a judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment without parole entered upon his conviction by a jury of the first degree murder of Sharon Renee Moore. The State’s evidence at trial tended to show that defendant and Sharon Renee Moore lived together as husband and wife, though they were not married. On the morning of 21 March 2000, eleven-year-old Adam Barefoot, the “adopted” son of defendant and Moore, overheard defendant and Moore arguing, and heard Moore “saying something like, ‘Don’t be pointing no gun at me.’ ” Soon after,…