William Michael Jordan v. State of Mississippi

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1, Evidence that a criminal defendant attempted to intimidate a witness into not testifying against him is an incriminating circumstance, tending to show a guilty conscience.1 For this reason, we find no error in the trial court admitting evidence that William Jordan and his codefendant, Charles Henderson, threatened the two eyewitnesses to Jordan’s murder of Aaron *839Coleman by participating in a rap video about killing snitches-a video published on YouTube after the two witnesses had implicated Jordan and Henderson but before Jordan’s trial commenced.

¶ 2. Nor do we…