Pennie v. State

NAHMIAS, Justice.

Appellant Ntyono Pennie and co-defendant Torrence Sanders were convicted of the felony murder of Shirley Akins and other offenses.1 Appellant contends that his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to request a detailed jury charge on proximate causation. We affirm.

1. In our previous decision affirming Sanders’s conviction, we *250summarized the evidence as follows:

Viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence shows that Sanders and... [Appellant] drove to an apartment complex in a [b] lack Nissan Maxima and approached an acquaintance, Danny Rakestraw, who was…