State v. Davis

Defendant appeals from his convictions for aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder, contending that there was insufficient evidence to support those convictions and that the trial court’s instructions to the jury erroneously required defendant to prove the defense of self-defense. 1 We find insufficient evidence of “prior calculation and design,” so we reduce the aggravated murder conviction to murder, but we otherwise affirm the trial court’s judgment.

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Evidence at the trial showed that defendant sought to enter a bar when he was confronted by a doorman who requested his…