State v. Johnson

JAMES EDWARD WELSH, Judge.

Harrell Johnson appeals the circuit court’s judgment convicting him of murder in the first degree. 1 Johnson contends that the evidence was insufficient to support a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt for murder in the first degree because the State failed to produce evidence that Johnson knowingly caused Erica Michelle Marie Green’s death after deliberation upon the matter. We affirm the circuit court’s judgment.

Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence established that, in April 2001, Johnson and Michelle Johnson 2 were…