Mississippi Supreme Court· 5/7/2015

Ronk v. State

Citations

172 So. 3d 1112
2015 Miss. LEXIS 219
2015 WL 2168283

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holding that defendant “waived any argument” that a jury instruction “effectively constituted a substantive amendment to his indictment” when he “agreed to the submission of” the instruction
recognizing that in reviewing a sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge, “[i]f any reasonable trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt, this Court will not disturb the jury’s verdict”
finding admission of bank statements harmless, in part, because statements did not directly implicate defendant, but helped explain the investigation of victim’s death
“Counsel must object contemporaneously to inadmissible evidence in order to preserve the error for appeal.”
\[T]he jury found ... [that] the Defendant actually killed [decedent].\
“This Court has held that ‘when there is evidence that a weapon could have caused an injury and some connection between the defendant and the weapon exists, the weapon will be deemed relevant and admissible.’” (Quoting Ross v. State, 954 So. 2d 968, 993 (¶46) (Miss. 2007)

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Judges: Chandler, Coleman, Dickinson, King, Kitchens, Lamar, Pierce, Randolph, Waller

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