Sims v. State

HlNES, Justice.

Renardo Antonio Sims appeals from his convictions of malice murder, aggravated assault, and concealing the death of another person, all in connection with the death of Sewrana Yosief. For the reasons that follow, we affirm in part and vacate in part.

Construed to support the verdicts, the evidence showed that Yosief and Sims had an intermittent sexual relationship. Sims resided with family members in a house across the street from a house in which his friend Charles Webb resided with Gregory Hann. Late in the evening of September 13, 2000, Webb and Hann were at Sims’s residence.…