Davis v. State

Annabelle Clinton Imber, Justice.

Appellant Michael Todd Davis appeals his convictions for the first-degree murder of his wife Jennifer Davis and the kidnapping of his stepdaughter Leslie Stewart. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the first-degree murder conviction and to a forty-year sentence for the kidnapping conviction. On appeal, Davis raises four points of error: (1) the circuit court erred in denying his directed-verdict motion on both charges; (2) the circuit court erred in denying his motion to sever the charges; (3) the circuit court erred in admitting photographs of the…