Weeks v. State

BOEHM, Justice.

On the night of May 16, 1995, Joseph E. Weeks and Bill Anderson were dining together at Applebee’s restaurant in Columbus where the two often met. Anderson at one point went to the restroom. Viewed most favorably to the verdict, the evidence showed that Weeks followed Anderson into the restroom and shot him in the back of the head at close range. Anderson died from the wound two days later. Weeks was charged with murder and found guilty but mentally ill (“GBMI”). The trial court sentenced him to the maximum term of sixty years imprisonment. In this direct appeal, Weeks…