Haynes v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

James Haynes appeals from his first-degree murder conviction and life sentence, raising three points for reversal. We find that none of them has merit, and we affirm.

Malvern police responded to a call at 430 Oak Street during the late afternoon of June 29, 1999, and found two bodies in a back bedroom. One person, eighteen-year-old Shamone Haynes, was unresponsive and was pronounced dead at the scene, but the other person, James Haynes, was still breathing. As emergency medical personnel worked to stabilize him, he stated that he had shot himself and wanted to die. He also…