Cannon v. State

SMITH, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of first degree murder after a jury trial, and received a life sentence with no possibility of parole for twenty-five years. The sole issue raised on this appeal is whether the evidence adduced below was sufficient to establish that appellant had a premeditated intent to kill. We affirm.

The trial testimony indicated that both appellant and the victim, James Powis, were patients at a mental health facility known as the Lakeview Center, located in Pensacola, on the day of the killing. Although there were no eyewitnesses to the killing, appellant gave a…