Skanes v. State

SHARP, W„ J.

Skanes appeals from his judgment and sentence for first degree murder,1 following a jury trial. He was sentenced to life in prison. We affirm.

The evidence presented against Skanes in this ease was substantial. Skanes’ former girlfriend (Thomas), who had lived with him for three of the five years preceding the crime, testified Skanes was jealous of her new boyfriend, and that he had threatened her to try to keep her from having the new boyfriend, the victim, in her apartment. Late at night while she was in her apartment with her young children and new boyfriend, she heard Skanes’…