Mcwilliams v. State

BENHAM, Justice.

**502Appellant Richard McWilliams seeks review of his convictions related to the beating death of his girlfriend Kathleen Baxter.1 For the reasons set forth below, we affirm appellant's convictions.

1. The evidence construed in a light most favorable to upholding the jury's verdicts shows as follows. Appellant and the victim dated for approximately five years leading up to her death. The victim confided in her daughter, as well as in a close friend, about abuse she suffered at the hands of appellant when he was drunk. At trial, both the daughter and the friend testified that…