Copple v. State

ROBERTS, J., for the Court:

¶ 1. Following a trial in the Lowndes County Circuit Court, a jury convicted Daniel Paul Copple of two counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault. Copple was sentenced to life on Count I for the murder of James Bennett-Mann, life on Count II for the murder of Mark Caudill, and fifteen years on Count III for the aggravated assault of Michael Ward. His sentences were ordered to run consecutively to one another. Copple timely executed the current appeal claiming the verdicts were against the overwhelming weight of the evidence and that the evidence against…