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Evans v. State

The trial court did not err in admitting defendant's statement to a cellmate where the evidence showed that the cellmate was acting on his own initiative, not as an agent for the state.

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The appellant, Darnell Evans, appeals from his convictions for malice murder and armed robbery.1 He contends that the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions, and that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a statement that he made to the police and a statement that he made to a cellmate. Because we conclude that the evidence is sufficient to support the convictions, and that the trial court properly admitted Evans’s statements, we affirm. 1. Having reviewed the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, we conclude that a rational trier of fact could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that Evans followed the victim on the night of the crimes in order to steal his car and that Evans shot and killed the victim when he did not cooperate with Evans. The evidence is therefore sufficient to support the convictions.2

2. Evans contends that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a statement that he gave to the police. More specifically, Evans contends the statement was involuntary because Evans had only earned a GED and because the police officer who interviewed him attempted to coerce Evans into giving a statement by informing Evans that he the officer had Evans’s fingerprints. We disagree with this contention.

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