Satterfield v. State

JOHN MAUZY PITTMAN, Judge.

|,Appellant was charged with first-degree murder and was tried by a jury. The jury was given instructions relating to this offense, as well as to the lesser-included offenses of second-degree murder and manslaughter. The jury found appellant not guilty of first-degree murder but guilty of second-degree murder. The sole issue on appeal is whether the evidence was sufficient to support the jury’s finding that appellant knowingly killed the victim. Appellant argues that the jury was faced with a choice between two reasonable conclusions because the evidence was…