Abraha v. State

Hines, Justice.

Arega Abraha was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of malice murder and felony murder while in the commission of aggravated assault for the fatal shooting of his cousin, Aster Haile. Abraha appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence of his guilt, the refusal to suppress the results of an executed search warrant for his automobile, and the admission into evidence of certain of the victim’s statements. Finding the challenges to be without merit, we affirm.

The evidence construed in favor of the verdicts showed that on January 14, 1997, between…