Davis v. State
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, one count of armed robbery, and one count of first-degree arson. The trial court imposed two sentences of death. Defendant appealed his convictions and sentences. The Supreme Court affirmed the trial court’s judgments of conviction and sentences of death, holding (1) the trial court properly admitted the statements of one victim as a dying declaration; (2) the trial court did not err in admitted certain out-of-court and in-court identifications of Appellant; (3) the trial court did not err in admitting nearly four dozen autopsy and hospital photographs of the murder victims; (4) the trial court properly found that Appellant committed the murder of one victim in order to avoid arrest; (5) competent, substantial evidence of guilt supported Appellant’s convictions; and (6) Appellant’s death sentences satisfied the Court’s proportionality requirement.
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