Davie v. State

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

Andree Davie was convicted of felony murder and cruelty to children in the death of Amber Hudson, a two-and-a-half-year-old child. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the felony murder count and to a concurrent 20-year term on the cruelty to children count. Davie primarily challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. Because we find the evidence sufficient we affirm his murder conviction. We must, however, vacate the sentence on the cruelty to children count because that count merged as a matter of law into the felony murder count.

1. The evidence showed that…