Hooks v. State

BRANDON J. HARRISON, Judge.

|, Pamela Hooks appeals a circuit court order that imprisoned her for forty-seven years after a jury convicted her of murdering John Davis in the second degree. We .affirm the conviction because we reject Hooks’s argument that the State failed to carry its burden of proof.

In October 2010, Hooks and her boyfriend, John Davis, fought physically inside an apartment they shared. Davis collapsed sometime during the fight, and Hooks called 911. When the police arrived they saw Hooks performing CPR on Davis in the kitchen. Davis was pronounced dead later the same day.

Hooks…