Hawkins v. State

MELTON, Presiding Justice.

*516**299Following a jury trial, Orlando Lamar Hawkins was found guilty of malice murder and other offenses in connection with the shooting death of Morie Jermichael Brooks.1 On appeal, Hawkins contends that the trial court erred in its charge to the jury, and that **300the trial court erred in denying his motion in limine to exclude from trial evidence of various Facebook messages. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict, the evidence presented at trial revealed that, in the early morning hours of October 6,…