Lucas v. State

BENHAM, Justice.

Charrine Dartez Lucas appeals his conviction for malice murder.1 Witnesses at trial testified that Lucas engaged in a confrontation with a woman and two men which led to a fist-fight with one of the men. Lucas broke free, entered his uncle’s house where he sometimes lived, got two knives from the kitchen, and went back outside. The man with whom Lucas fought had since left the area, but the other man, Gary Kaigler, intervened when Lucas attempted to cut or stab the woman. Lucas’s uncle testified Lucas shouted, “I’m going to get you . . . and his aunt testified Lucas exchanged…