Baines v. State

The defendant committed a shooting and, less than an hour later, caused a high-speed fatal car crash four miles away. The state, alleging that the defendant was escaping from the shooting when he caused the crash, convicted him of felony murder and other charges. The defendant challenges his felony murder convictions, arguing that the state failed to prove an *1278unbroken “chain of circumstances” between the two events. We affirm. Even though the state could not account for the defendant’s every action between the two events, the state introduced sufficient evidence to prove that the defendant…