Ayalavillamizar v. State

Appellant, Jorge Ivan Ayalavillamizar, appeals his conviction for first degree murder. He raises four issues, arguing that *495the trial court erred in: (1) denying his motion for judgment of acquittal because the circumstantial evidence was insufficient to support his conviction; (2) permitting the state to elicit irrelevant, inflammatory evidence that appellant struck the victim’s son in the past and that the victim had an abortion; (3) permitting the state to demonstrate how the murder weapon struck the victim’s head and to show photographs of the victim’s injuries, and (4) failing to give…