State v. Williams

OPINION

in which ANDERSON, C.J., DROWOTA, HOLDER and BARKER, JJ., joined.

Dimarko Bojere Williams was convicted of second degree murder and was sen tenced to the Department of Correction for twenty-five years. Williams appealed, contending, inter alia, that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction for second degree murder because he and the victim had been engaged in “mutual combat” at the time of the killing. In cases in which a victim is killed during mutual combat, he asserted, the defendant may be convicted of voluntary manslaughter only. The Court of Criminal Appeals…