Woodard v. State

Smith, Presiding Justice.

Aakeem T. Woodard and Dana Thompson were indicted for the *826offenses of malice murder, armed robbery, and felony murder in connection with the shooting death of Ms. Betty Sue Bowman. The first jury acquitted the defendants of malice murder, and it was unable to reach a verdict on the armed robbery and felony murder counts. After a second trial, on the armed robbery and felony murder counts, the defendants were found guilty on both counts and sentenced to life imprisonment.1

Appellant Woodard, following a plan he had devised sometime earlier, rode to the scene of the…