Thompson v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This is an appeal from the appellant Billy R. Thompson’s convictions for first degree murder and felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm for which he was sentenced respectively to life and 360 months in prison. He raises the following two points on appeal: 1) the State failed to prove that he had the purpose of causing the death of another human being, as is required for a first-degree murder conviction, and 2) the trial court erred in failing to sever the murder charge from the felon-in-possession charge. We affirm.

In Mayflower, around 7:00 p.m. on August 24, 1997, a neighbor…