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12/03/2024
IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON
Assigned on Briefs October 1, 2024
STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JAYLON HATCH
Appeal from the Criminal Court for Shelby County
Nos. 21-00250, 21-00645 James Jones, Jr., Judge
No. W2023-01764-CCA-R3-CD
The Defendant, Jaylon Hatch, was convicted by a Shelby County Criminal Court jury of
attempted premeditated first degree murder, a Class A felony; aggravated assault in
concert with two or more persons, a Class B felony; reckless endangerment by
discharging a firearm into a habitation, a Class C felony; and employing a firearm during
the commission of a dangerous felony, a Class C felony. See T.C.A. §§ 39-13-202 (first
degree murder), 39-13-102 (Supp. 2019) (subsequently amended) (aggravated assault),
39-13-103 (Supp. 2019) (reckless endangerment), 39-17-1324 (Supp. 2019)
(subsequently amended) (employing a firearm). The trial court imposed an effective
twenty-one-year sentence. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the evidence is
insufficient to establish that he was the perpetrator of the conviction offenses because
they are based on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice. We affirm the
judgments of the trial court.
Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgments of the Criminal Court Affirmed
ROBERT H. MONTGOMERY, JR., J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which TIMOTHY
L. EASTER and MATTHEW J. WILSON, JJ., joined.
Rosalind E. Brown (on appeal); and Jim Hale (at trial), Memphis, Tennessee, for the
appellant, Jaylon Hatch.
Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; John Cerisano, Assistant Attorney
General; Steve Mulroy, District Attorney General; and Forrest M. Edwards and Chris
Lareau, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
OPINION
The Defendant’s convictions relate to two drive-by shootings at a Memphis home
during which several victims were shot and injured. The Defendant was tried jointly with
codefendants Jerrell Anderson and Mitchell Hopkins. Codefendant Jerry Anderson,
Jerrell Anderson’s brother, testified for the State at the joint trial.
Leslie Kendrix testified that on June 8, 2020, she and her family and friends were
at her home celebrating her daughter’s birthday when she heard gunshots outside. She
said that there were “too many” gunshots to count and that the shooters “shot up the
whole house.” According to Ms. Kendrix, approximately ten bullets entered the house,
many leaving holes in the walls and breaking windows. Her doorbell audio and video
camera recorded the incident, and the recording was received as an exhibit and played for
the jury. Ms. Kendrix testified that although she was not outside during this first
shooting, she saw two or three men shooting guns on the recording.
The doorbell recording showed Ms. Kendrix’s house’s front porch and the road in
front of her house. Her ex-husband and others stood by a car in the driveway and her
son’s friend stood on the porch. Two cars, one black and the other silver, drove in front
of the house and stopped. After someone from one of the cars yelled, several men
stepped out of the cars and began shooting toward the house.
Ms. Kendrix testified that, after the 3:08 p.m. shooting, the police conducted a
brief investigation and left. Later that day, at 6:40 p.m., people were on her porch, and
Ms. Kendrix was sweeping up broken glass and debris. Ms. Kendrix said she left the
porch to go inside at which time she heard more gunshots and called 9-1-1. During the
second shooting, Ms. Kendrix’s mother was shot in the hip, her two-year-old
granddaughter was shot in the leg, and her cousin was shot in the leg. The doorbell
recording of the second shooting incident was received as an exhibit and played for the
jury.
The doorbell recording of the second shooting showed several people leaving Ms.
Kendrix’s front porch, and Ms. Kendrix’s mother sweeping the porch. Multiple gunshots
were fired, Ms. Kendrix’s mother fell to the ground, and Ms. Kendrix’s two-year-old
granddaughter ran across the porch to the front door. The recording showed Ms.
Kendrix’s daughter crying out, “My baby, my baby f------ hit.” Ms. Kendrix’s cousin,
who was armed, indicated that he had been shot, and several people attended to Ms.
Kendrix’s mother on the porch.
Lola Bolden testified that she was Ms. Kendrix’s mother, that she was at Ms.
Kendrix’s house at the time of both shootings, and that she was age seventy at the time.
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Ms. Bolden said that, during the first shooting, bullets entered the room where she and a
grandchild were sitting and cracked a front window. She stated that, during the second
shooting, she was shot in the leg. This fractured her femur and pierced a vein and
arteries, which required surgery and a rod in her leg. She noted that her injuries required
her to use a cane to walk.
David Freeman testified that he was present during the two shootings on June 8,
2020. Mr. Freeman said that he was working on his car in the driveway when the first
shooting occurred. Two cars appeared in front of the house: a black Mercedes G Wagon
and a silver Mercedes sedan. Mr. Freeman said that he ran toward the back of the house
when he heard gunshots and that Lakendrick Stewart was shot. According to Mr.
Freeman, two men were in each car. Mr. Freeman said he was on the front porch when
the second shooting occurred.
Jessie Murrell testified that he received a telephone call on June 8, 2020, in which
he learned about the shooting at his cousin’s house. Mr. Murrell, who had a handgun
license, said he armed himself and went to Ms. Kendrix’s house around 5:00 p.m. Once
there, he noticed a silver Mercedes sedan parked along the street. He said that, while
helping a family member load chairs into a car, he heard gunshots from the corner of the
street, where he saw five shooters. Mr. Murrell said that he returned gunfire and was shot
twice in the leg. Mr. Murrell stated that he received medical treatment for the gunshots,
that he had residual pain from the injuries, and that the bullets remained in his leg. On
cross-examination, Mr. Murrell acknowledged that he could not identify the shooters.
Alexis Monger testified that she was Ms. Kendrix’s daughter and that she and her
two-year-old daughter were at Ms. Kendrix’s house during the shootings. According to
Ms. Monger, she and her daughter were asleep in a back bedroom at the time of the first
shooting, but her daughter was on the front porch at the time of the second shooting, was
shot in her left leg, and was grazed by a bullet on her right leg. Ms. Monger said that she
drove her daughter to the hospital for medical treatment.
Memphis Police Department (MPD) Officer Henry Hearns testified that he
responded to both shootings, photographed the scene, and preserved and collected
evidence. Officer Hearns’s photographs, sketch of the area, and crime scene report were
received as exhibits and shown to the jury. The photographs showed the location of the
cartridge casings on the street in front of and beside Ms. Kendrix’s house. One
photograph showed that eight bullets entered Ms. Kendrix’s house through a front porch
window. Other photographs showed that a bullet struck Ms. Kendrix’s television and
that several bullets embedded in interior walls. Officer Hearns said that bullets also
pierced a window and struck a bathroom medicine cabinet at the house next door.
Officer Hearns said that he collected over ninety cartridge casings that had been fired
from four different firearms.
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MPD Sergeant Keith Phillips testified that he responded to the first shooting and
later retrieved surveillance recordings from a nearby convenience market which showed
cars matching the cars identified in the first shooting as they drove away from Ms.
Kendrix’s neighborhood. According to Sergeant Phillips, immediately before the second
shooting, a convenience market recording showed a silver sedan and a black sedan circle
the block near Ms. Kendrix’s house and stop at a corner where men got out of the cars
and began walking toward Ms. Kendrix’s home. Sergeant Phillips also obtained Cherry
Creek Apartments surveillance recordings from which he identified codefendant Jerry
Anderson and his brother, codefendant Jerrell Anderson, as initial suspects. The
apartment complex surveillance recordings were received as an exhibit and played for the
jury.
A Cherry Creek Apartments surveillance recording, from a camera facing the
apartment parking lot, showed that a silver Mercedes sedan, a black sedan, and a black
Mercedes G Wagon pulled into the parking lot after the first shooting and that five men,
some carrying weapons, walked into the apartment complex. A different surveillance
camera showed that the same five men entered an apartment. One of the men wore a
white, flat-brimmed baseball hat with the bill turned to the side. Several hours later and
before the second shooting, a surveillance camera recorded eight men leaving the
apartment, and another camera recorded the men walking to the parking lot, including the
man who wore the white baseball hat. Four cars left the parking lot: two silver Mercedes
sedans, a black Mercedes G Wagon, and a black sedan.
Sergeant Phillips testified that surveillance recordings from the apartment complex
showed that the armed men returned from the first shooting and entered an apartment
occupied by someone called “Dome-Shot.” Sergeant Phillips identified codefendant
Jerry Anderson and codefendant Jerrell Anderson on the recordings, both of whom were
arrested on September 9, 2020. Sergeant Phillips said that he talked to Jerry Anderson,
that Jerry Anderson identified the Defendant and codefendant Hopkins as additional
suspects, and that he did not record his interview with Jerry Anderson. Sergeant Phillips
corroborated the Defendant’s identity by comparing the Defendant’s MPD database
photograph with the apartment complex surveillance recording of the men returning from
the parking lot after the first shooting.
On September 9, 2020, Sergeant Phillips interviewed codefendant Jerrell
Anderson, and a video recording of the interview was received as an exhibit and played
for the jury. During the interview, Jerrell Anderson acknowledged that he drove a silver
Mercedes sedan to the first shooting, that Darrin Wilson was with him, and that he fired
shots at Ms. Kendrix’s house. Jerrell Anderson said that a black Mercedes G Wagon
followed his car but that he did not know who was in it. Jerrell Anderson stated that he
went to Cherry Creek Apartments after the first shooting. He acknowledged that the
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apartment complex’s surveillance recordings showed him and the other shooters and that
the recordings reflected the cars they drove to Ms. Kendrix’s house during both
shootings. Jerrell Anderson confirmed that he returned to Ms. Kendrix’s house in the
silver Mercedes sedan for the second shooting, that he was alone in the car, and that he
did not fire a weapon. According to Jerrell Anderson, there were three individuals at the
first shooting and eight at the second. Jerrell Anderson said that the shooters were
targeting “Big Jook.” Jerrell Anderson did not know the present location of the guns
used during the shootings and concluded his interview by saying, “I didn’t shoot that
little girl or the grandma.”
On cross-examination, Sergeant Phillips testified that codefendant Jerrell
Anderson initially said that his brother, codefendant Jerry Anderson, was not involved in
the second shooting, but later implicated Jerry Anderson in that shooting. Sergeant
Phillips said he corroborated that Jerrell Anderson was present and fired a weapon at the
first shooting, that the shooters rode in a silver Mercedes sedan and a black Mercedes G
Wagon, and that the shooters returned with their weapons to Dome-Shot’s apartment.
According to Sergeant Phillips, although the apartment surveillance recording showed
that eight individuals left the apartment complex prior to the second shooting, the
doorbell recording of the second shooting showed that only three men fired weapons.
Sergeant Phillips confirmed that Jerry Anderson and Jerrell Anderson admitted they were
at the second shooting and that they provided information regarding others present.
Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office technical litigation analyst
Rebecca Gross testified that she created a video presentation of the events before and
after each shooting by synthesizing the surveillance recordings, 9-1-1 calls, maps of the
area, and other evidence. Ms. Gross’s video presentation was received as an exhibit and
played for the jury. In a video detailing the first shooting, Ms. Gross overlaid
photographs of the Defendant and codefendant Hopkins onto the Cherry Creek
Apartments surveillance recorded images of the shooters entering the apartment complex
from the parking lot. The video presentation showed an interactive map depicting the
location of the shooters’ cars immediately before and after the shootings. On cross-
examination, Ms. Gross acknowledged that she could not confirm the exact route the
shooters took from Ms. Kendrix’s house to Cherry Creek Apartments after the shootings.
Codefendant Jerry Anderson testified that he was thirty-one years old and that
codefendant Jerrell Anderson was his brother. Jerry Anderson said that he had graduated
from Arkansas Tech University with a degree in mass communications and that he was a
music producer. Jerry Anderson acknowledged that, as a result of his participation in the
second shooting, he was charged with attempted first degree murder, aggravated assault,
reckless endangerment, and employing a firearm during a dangerous felony. On October
6, 2020, Jerry Anderson and his attorney spoke to Sergeant Phillips regarding Jerry
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Anderson’s involvement in the shootings. Jerry Anderson admitted that he initially “told
many lies” but confirmed that he was one of the shooters at the second shooting.
Codefendant Jerry Anderson testified that although he was not present for the first
shooting, his brother telephoned that day saying he had been in a “shootout” and “slid on
somebody,” meaning his brother was involved in a drive-by shooting. Jerry Anderson
said that, immediately after talking to his brother about the first shooting, he met his
brother and the men from the first shooting at the Cherry Creek Apartments parking lot.
Watching the surveillance recording of the Cherry Creek Apartments parking lot, Jerry
Anderson identified his black sedan and his brother’s silver Mercedes sedan pulling into
the parking lot after the first shooting. On that recording, Jerry Anderson identified
himself, his brother, codefendant Hopkins, Mr. Wilson, and the Defendant, who wore a
white, flat-brimmed baseball hat with the bill turned to the side. Jerry Anderson said that
either Mr. Wilson or the Defendant was in his brother’s car during the first shooting.
Jerry Anderson also identified the Defendant in a Facebook photograph in which the
Defendant wore a similar flat-brimmed baseball hat with the bill turned to the side. Jerry
Anderson said that he met the Defendant for the first time on the day of the shootings.
Codefendant Jerry Anderson testified that, after the first shooting, he entered
Dome-Shot’s apartment with four other men, including the Defendant, and met other men
there. According to Jerry Anderson, several men were engaged in firearm maintenance
and were smoking “weed.” Jerry Anderson said that he did not know why his brother
wanted to go back to Ms. Kendrix’s house and noted that the Defendant “got his gun
ready” and said, “I want to go back [to Ms. Kendrix’s house]” and “B----, I’m ready to
go.” Jerry Anderson confirmed that only the black Mercedes sedan and the silver
Mercedes sedan returned for the second shooting. Jerry Anderson said that he assumed
the Defendant rode with his brother because he saw the Defendant standing beside his
brother’s car before they left to commit the second shooting. Jerry Anderson said he saw
several armed men standing in front of Ms. Kendrix’s house, that he and his brother
parked their cars at the corner of the block, and that “everyone” got out of the cars and
began shooting toward Ms. Kendrix’s house.
Codefendant Jerry Anderson testified that he initially told police officers that he
had not driven to the second shooting, that he had not fired a weapon, and that he had not
known any of the other shooters. Jerry Anderson, however, identified himself, Mr.
Wilson, and codefendants Jerrell Anderson and Hopkins on the doorbell camera
recording of the second shooting. According to Jerry Anderson, the recording did not
show the Defendant because he stood on a different corner. Jerry Anderson said the
Defendant and codefendant Hopkins had assault rifles. Jerry Anderson stated that he, Mr.
Wilson, the Defendant, and codefendants Jerrell Anderson and Hopkins returned briefly
to Dome-Shot’s apartment after the second shooting. Jerry Anderson confirmed that he
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saw the Defendant “a couple of times” after the shootings but that they did not discuss the
shootings.
On cross-examination, codefendant Jerry Anderson testified that he initially lied to
Sergeant Phillips about not knowing who was involved in the shootings and that he was
certain that the Defendant fired a weapon during the second shooting. Jerry Anderson
confirmed that the shootings regarded drug money owed to his brother and that no one
planned to kill anyone. Jerry Anderson reiterated that the prosecutor did not promise to
grant him leniency and acknowledged that he had provided the names of the shooters that
the State might not have had otherwise. Jerry Anderson reiterated that, while at Dome-
Shot’s apartment before the second shooting, the Defendant said that his gun had
“jammed” during the first shooting. Jerry Anderson also acknowledged that his
testimony was necessary to convict the Defendant and codefendant Hopkins.
The defense elected not to offer any proof.
Upon this evidence, the jury convicted the Defendant of attempted first degree
premeditated murder, aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and employing a
firearm during a dangerous felony, and he received an effective twenty-one-year
sentence. This appeal followed.
Analysis
The Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to identify him as a
participant in the first shooting because codefendant Jerry Anderson’s identification was
not corroborated by other proof and was not reliable. The State counters that the
evidence is sufficient to corroborate the Defendant’s identification and participation in
the first shooting and that the jury properly weighed Jerry Anderson’s credibility. We
agree with the State.
In determining the sufficiency of the evidence, the standard of review is “whether,
after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier
of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 (1979); see State v. Vasques, 221 S.W.3d 514,
521 (Tenn. 2007). The State is “afforded the strongest legitimate view of the evidence
and all reasonable inferences” from that evidence. Vasques, 221 S.W.3d at 521. The
appellate courts do not “reweigh or reevaluate the evidence,” and questions regarding
“the credibility of witnesses [and] the weight and value to be given the evidence . . . are
resolved by the trier of fact.” State v. Bland, 958 S.W.2d 651, 659 (Tenn. 1997); see
State v. Sheffield, 676 S.W.2d 542, 547 (Tenn. 1984).
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“A crime may be established by direct evidence, circumstantial evidence, or a
combination of the two.” State v. Hall, 976 S.W.2d 121, 140 (Tenn. 1998); see State v.
Sutton, 166 S.W.3d 686, 691 (Tenn. 2005). “The standard of review ‘is the same whether
the conviction is based upon direct or circumstantial evidence.’” State v. Dorantes, 331
S.W.3d 370, 379 (Tenn. 2011) (quoting State v. Hanson, 279 S.W.3d 265, 275 (Tenn.
2009)).
“Criminal responsibility, while not a separate crime, is an alternative theory under
which the State may establish guilt based upon the conduct of another.” State v.
Dorantes, 331 S.W.3d 370, 386 (Tenn. 2011) (quoting State v. Lemacks, 996 S.W.2d
166, 170 (Tenn. 1999)).
A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct
of another, if:
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(2) Acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, or
to benefit in the proceeds or results of the offense, the person solicits,
directs, aids, or attempts to aid another person to commit the offense[.]
T.C.A. § 39-11-402(2) (2018). For a defendant to be convicted of a crime under the
theory of criminal responsibility, the “evidence must establish that the defendant in some
way knowingly and voluntarily shared in the criminal intent of the crime and promoted
its commission.” Dorantes, 331 S.W.3d at 386; see State v. Maxey, 898 S.W.2d 756, 757
(Tenn. Crim. App. 1994).
The record reflects that codefendant Jerry Anderson was an accomplice to the
second shooting. Our supreme court recently abolished the common law requirement for
corroborative testimony of accomplices but did so on a prospective basis. State v.
Thomas, 687 S.W.3d 223, 242-43 (Tenn. 2024). At the time the Thomas opinion was
decided, this appeal was pending. Accordingly, in this case, we apply the common law
rule that requires that “a conviction may not be based solely upon the uncorroborated
testimony of an accomplice.” See, e.g., State v. Shaw, 37 S.W.3d 900, 903 (Tenn. 2001);
State v. Bigbee, 885 S.W.2d 797, 803 (Tenn. 1994); Monts v. State, 379 S.W.2d 34, 43
(Tenn. 1964), overruled on other grounds by State v. Collier, 411 S.W.3d 886 (Tenn.
2013). In order for accomplice testimony to be adequately corroborated:
[T]here must be some fact testified to, entirely independent of the
accomplice’s testimony, which, taken by itself, leads to the inference, not
only that a crime has been committed, but also that the defendant is
implicated in it; and this independent corroborative testimony must also
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include some fact establishing the defendant’s identity. This corroborative
evidence may be direct or entirely circumstantial, and it need not be
adequate, in and of itself, to support a conviction; it is sufficient to meet the
requirements of the rule if it fairly and legitimately tends to connect the
defendant with the commission of the crime charged. It is not necessary
that the corroboration extend to every part of the accomplice’s evidence.
Bigbee, 885 S.W.2d at 803 (quoting State v. Gaylor, 862 S.W.2d 546, 552 (Tenn. Crim.
App. 1992) (citations omitted)); see Shaw, 37 S.W.3d at 903.
Although the Defendant stated in his brief that the issue for review is “whether the
trial court erred in denying [his] motion for a new trial as the jury verdict was against the
weight of the evidence[,]” he only provided argument regarding whether accomplice
testimony identifying the Defendant was corroborated by other evidence. We will direct
our analysis accordingly. See T.R.A.P. 27(a)(7), Tenn. R. Ct. Crim. App. 10(b). Further,
an appellate challenge to the weight of the evidence is properly addressed by a
sufficiency of the evidence analysis. See State v. Burlison, 868 S.W.2d 713, 719 (Tenn.
Crim. App. 1993) (stating that after a trial court has discharged its obligation as thirteenth
juror and approved the verdict, an appellate court must credit the testimony of the State’s
witnesses and resolve evidentiary conflicts in the State’s favor).
Viewed in the light most favorable to the State, the record reflects the Defendant
participated in the first shooting. Mr. Freeman and codefendant Jerrell Anderson
identified the cars driven to the first shooting as a silver Mercedes sedan and a black
Mercedes G Wagon. The convenience store recording showed a silver Mercedes sedan
and a black Mercedes G Wagon leaving Ms. Kendrix’s neighborhood after the first
shooting. Surveillance recordings from Cherry Creek Apartments showed a silver
Mercedes sedan and a black Mercedes G Wagon returning to the apartment complex after
the first shooting. The apartment surveillance recordings also showed five men, some
visibly carrying guns, returning to the apartment complex after the first shooting and
entering Dome-Shot’s apartment. Sergeant Phillips identified Jerrell Anderson and
codefendant Jerry Anderson in those recordings. Sergeant Phillips also compared the
images of the men on the apartment recording with the Defendant’s photograph from the
MPD database and confirmed that the Defendant was one of the men shown on the
recording entering the apartment complex from the parking lot after the first shooting.
Codefendant Jerry Anderson testified that he was not present for the first shooting
but met the other men in the apartment parking lot after the first shooting and that he
walked to Dome-Shot’s apartment with them. From the Cherry Creek Apartment
surveillance recordings after the first shooting, Jerry Anderson identified the Defendant
as the man who wore a white, flat-brimmed baseball hat with the bill turned sideways and
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said that the Defendant was one of the men at Dome-Shot’s apartment. According to
Jerry Anderson, while at Dome-Shot’s apartment after the first shooting, the Defendant
said, “I want to go back [to Ms. Kendrix’s house]” and “B----, I’m ready to go.” The jury
was shown the Cherry Creek Apartments recordings and the Defendant’s Facebook
profile photograph, which showed the Defendant wearing a flat-brimmed baseball hat
with the bill turned sideways.
“Only slight circumstances are required to corroborate an accomplice’s testimony”
as the evidence need only “tend[] to connect the defendant with the commission of the
crime charged.” State v. Fusco, 404 S.W.3d 504, 525 (Tenn. Crim. App. 2012) (citation
omitted); Bigbee, 885 S.W.2d at 803; see State v. Lacorious Tyquez Fuller, No. M2023-
00694-CCA-R3-CD, 2024 WL 4235619, at *7 (Tenn. Crim. App. Sept. 19, 2024)
(officers’ identification of the defendant from a video recording corroborated the
accomplices’ identification of the defendant) (perm. app. filed Nov. 18, 2024). In the
present case, the trial court determined that codefendant Jerry Anderson was an
accomplice and instructed the jury that his testimony must be corroborated by
independent evidence. The jury had the opportunity to compare the Defendant’s
appearance at the trial with the recordings from Cherry Creek Apartments and to hear
Sergeant Phillips’s testimony. Sergeant Phillips testified that he corroborated the
Defendant’s identity by comparing the Defendant’s MPD photograph with the Cherry
Creek Apartments’ recording of the shooters returning to the apartments after the first
shooting. The evidence in this case is sufficient to corroborate Jerry Anderson’s
identification of the Defendant.
The Defendant also argues that inconsistencies in codefendant Jerry Anderson’s
statements to law enforcement “raised serious questions about his credibility” at the trial.
However, the jury had the opportunity to weigh his credibility after hearing his testimony
and defense counsel’s cross-examination of him. This court does not reweigh evidence
and questions regarding the credibility of witnesses and the weight to be given the
evidence are resolved by the trier of fact. See Bland, 958 S.W.2d at 659.
We conclude that the evidence is sufficient to support the Defendant’s convictions.
The Defendant is not entitled to relief on this basis.
In consideration of the foregoing and the record as a whole, the judgments of the
trial court are affirmed.
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ROBERT H. MONTGOMERY, JR., JUDGE
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