Hayes v. State

David Newbern, Justice.

This criminal appeal arises from the conviction, upon a jury verdict, and sentence to life imprisonment of the appellant, Jerry Hayes. Hayes was charged with the murder of Patricia Taunt. He questions the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction and argues a statement he made to the police should have been suppressed. We decline to consider the sufficiency argument because of Hayes’s failure to move for a directed verdict, and we find no basis for suppressing the statement.

An unidentified person reported that Ms. Taunt was missing and that the police should…