Withers v. State

Hines, Justice.

Virgil Withers appeals his convictions for felony murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime in connection with the death of Demerio Coleman. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Construed to support the verdicts, the evidence showed that after sundown on the night of June 19, 1996, Elroy Flowers, his brother, Eugene Vasquez, and Flowers’s friend Coleman, were working on an automobile in front of the house in which Flowers lived. Vasquez drove away, and Flowers went inside the home to put away a light he had been using. Coleman took a telephone from…