Evans v. State

11A jury empaneled in the Union County Circuit Court found appellant Desmond Evans guilty of capital murder in connection with the death of a toddler in his care. The circuit court sentenced Evans to a term of life in prison without parole. For reversal, Evans alleges that ■ the ' circuit court erred (1) in failing-to instruct the jury on the lesser-included ’offenses of first- and second-degree murder; (2) in admitting certain autopsy photographs; and .(3) in admitting a letter Evans wrote and attempted to send from the jail. We affirm Evans’s conviction and sentence.

Evans’s conviction stems…