Wiggins v. State

CARLEY, Justice.

A jury found Kourtnay Wiggins guilty of malice murder of Truvoy Washington, and the trial court sentenced him to life imprisonment for that crime. Wiggins’ motion for new trial was denied, and he appeals from the judgment of conviction and life sentence entered on the jury’s guilty verdict. *

1. The State’s theory was that Wiggins murdered Washington with a baseball bat, and that robbery was the motive for the homicide. At trial, the prosecution introduced evidence showing that the victim and a group of his friends were drinking at the same bar as Wiggins. When Washington’s…