People v. Sneed

After a jury trial defendant Silas Sneed was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment. Defendant appeals and we affirm.

At trial, Easter Tiney testified that she lived with her family at 1520 West Hastings and that she last saw her son Charlie alive at approximately 3 p.m. on January 6, 1991. Charlie’s brother Elijah woke Easter up two hours later and told her that Charlie was lying on the stairs and that he had been shot. Easter ran down to the ninth floor of the building where she saw her son, wearing a white T-shirt and gray jeans, lying facedown on the…