State v. Shelly

STEPHENS, Judge.

Defendant appeals from judgments entered on jury verdicts finding him guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of Malcom Jackson. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on the conviction of first-degree murder and to a minimum term of 157 months and a maximum term of 198 months on the conviction of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, with the sentences to run consecutively. At trial,the State’s evidence tended to show the following:

On the afternoon of 1 January 2002, Andre Jackson (“A.J.”) and his…