State v. Williams

OPINION

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

We granted the State’s appeal to consider whether the defendant’s federal or state constitutional right of confrontation was violated by the admission into evidence of surveillance photographs taken at the scene of the robbery. The Court of Criminal Appeals decided that the defendant’s constitutional right of confrontation was violated and that the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. As a result, they reversed the trial court’s judgment of conviction.

We conclude that neither the state nor federal…