Williams v. State

HINES, Presiding Justice.

Anthony Lashawn Williams appeals the denial of his motion for new trial, as amended, and his conviction and sentence for malice murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Jeanette Woodson. He challenges the admission at trial of similar transaction evidence and a portion of the State’s closing argument, which he maintains constituted improper comment on his failure to testify. Finding the challenges to be unavailing, we affirm.1

The evidence construed to support the verdict showed the following. On November 20,1992, Woodson’s body was found on the side of a dirt…