Tennyson v. State

CARLEY, Justice.

A jury found Tommie Raquest Tennyson guilty of felony murder during the commission of aggravated assault. The trial court entered a judgment of conviction on the guilty verdict, and imposed a life sentence. Tennyson filed a motion for new trial and, when that motion was denied, he brought this appeal from his conviction and sentence. *

1. Construing the evidence most strongly in support of the jury’s guilty verdict shows that, after engaging in a heated verbal exchange with Allen King, Tennyson started a car and then ran over the unarmed victim three times. This evidence is…