Barnes v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

Charles Barnes was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the 1997 killings of Eula and Dorothy Whidock. He raises nine points on appeal, none of which has merit.

For his first issue, Barnes challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, contending only that his conviction was unsupported by substantial evidence because it was based solely on the statement of an accomplice, Melanie Roberts, and his own inculpatory statements. In reviewing a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, we view the evidence in a light most favorable to the State and consider only…