Sheffield v. State

HINES, Justice.

Henry Sheffield, Jr. appeals his conviction for malice murder in connection with the strangulation of Janice Cunningham. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to corroborate his inculpatory statement to police and the sufficiency of the evidence to support the element of intent to kill the victim. Finding the challenges to be without merit, we affirm.

On January 1, 2005, Janice Cunningham was found dead at an abandoned Clayton County gas station, where she often stayed. Her body was nude from the waist down. She had been raped and manually strangled. The prior evening,…