Franklin v. State

IRVING, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Senica Matthew Franklin was convicted by the Harrison County Circuit Court of two counts of murder and one count of arson. He was sentenced to serve a life sentence for each of the murder convictions and twenty years for the arson conviction, with the sentences to run concurrently. Aggrieved, Franklin appeals and asserts: (1) that the trial court erred in failing to grant his motion for a new trial, (2) that his trial attorney was ineffective, (3) that the trial court erred in refusing to grant his proposed circumstantial evidence jury instruction, and (4) that…