Lawrence Cane was convicted of murder, possession of a knife during the commission of a felony, robbery and related crimes arising out of the stabbing death of Andrea Flynt and the taking of Kimberly Lamb’s motor vehicle. He appeals from the denial of his motion for new trial.1 Finding no error, we affirm. 1. The evidence authorized the jury to find that the day after appellant was released from jail, he learned from Flynt, the mother of his two children, that she was romantically involved with someone else. Claiming that he wanted to see his children, appellant arranged for Flynt to get him in her car. He took a kitchen knife from his parents’ home and joined Flynt in the car, with their two young children in the back seat. As Flynt was driving the two began to argue. Appellant produced the knife and, despite Flynt’s struggles, stabbed her six times, including a fatal wound to her abdomen. Flynt’s car crashed in a parking lot and appellant fled into the middle of a nearby road. Appellant took advantage of a BMW that slowed down for him by jumping into the passenger seat and threatening the driver, Lamb, in a manner that led her to believe he had a gun. When appellant ignored Lamb’s orders to get out, she exited her vehicle and appellant drove it from the scene. Appellant was arrested early the next morning after a police officer persuaded him not to jump off an Interstate 85 overpass. At trial the jury heard Cane’s two videotaped statements to police, in which he claimed that the stabbings were accidentally inflicted during the struggle over the knife and that the fatal wound resulted when the vehicle’s airbag deployed in the crash, forcing the weapon into the victim’s abdomen. A cellmate, William Sorter, testified that appellant made statements to Sorter about having just been released from jail, using drugs, arguing with his girlfriend and stabbing her with a long-bladed knife that he picked up from the house after realizing she was serious about leaving him.
The evidence adduced was sufficient to enable a reasonable trier of fact to find appellant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the charged crimes. Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U.S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979.
