Wooten v. State

HINES, Justice.

Richard Wooten was found guilty of the malice murder of Marvin Peoples and the aggravated assault of Charles Rushing. Wooten fatally shot Peoples and wounded Rushing in a restaurant parking lot. Wooten contends that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions, urging that the absence of malice authorized at most a verdict of voluntary manslaughter. Finding the evidence sufficient to support the convictions, we affirm.

The evidence construed in favor of the verdicts showed that on September 13, 1997, Rushing, Peoples and Dennard drove to a fast food restaurant. They…