Williams v. State

Gregory, Justice.

Ray Anthony Williams was convicted of the murder of Tyrone Brodnax and sentenced to life imprisonment. The only issues raised on appeal relate to the alleged ineffectiveness of the defendant’s trial counsel.

The evidence at trial showed that late in the evening of February 5, 1982, Greta Stevens hired the defendant to supervise her children while she went out. When the victim, who was the father of one of Stevens’s children, discovered that the defendant had left the children alone in Stevens’s apartment, he located the defendant at a neighbor’s party. The two men exchanged…