Simpson v. State

TOM GLAZE, Justice.

Appellant Sedric Maurice Simpson ticeguilty . capital murder for the shooting deaths of Wendy Pennington and Lena Sue Garner. Simpson was sentenced to death by lethal injection. He appeals his conviction, raising five points for reversal.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged in this appeal, so a brief summary of the facts will suffice. In the early morning hours of June 20, 1997, the H & H Grocery in Holly Springs was robbed and the two women working there, Pennington and Garner, were shot and killed with a 12-gauge shotgun. About an hour later, Sedric Simpson…