Sellers v. State

Jordan, Chief Justice.

Billy Laymon Sellers was convicted in Catoosa County for the murder of Aurilse Reece Moore, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals, contending that the state failed to prove each element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt, that evidence of flight erroneously was admitted before the jury, and that the court should have charged his written request regarding reasonable doubt.

1. The jury heard evidence from which any rational trier of fact could have found the following beyond a reasonable doubt: Sellers and his son-in-law, Curtis Melvin Hodges, had…