Crawford v. State

HUNSTEIN, Chief Justice.

Roy Crawford was convicted of murder in the drowning death of Seliqueka Curry. He appeals from the denial of his motion for new trial, 1 challenging the admission of his statement to police officers and the trial court’s failure to give certain charges. Finding no error, we affirm.

1. The evidence adduced at trial authorized the jury to find that, on the morning of the murder, appellant was outside the apartment where his brother-in-law, James Williams, lived. 2 The teenaged victim, her mother (who was Williams’s girlfriend) and Williams’s teenaged son, Je’Vaun White,…