Manning v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Manning’s convictions for felony murder, aggravated assault, and firearm offenses arising from the shooting death of Jimmy Sims. It held that the evidence was sufficient for the jury to reject Manning’s self-defense claim, and that any error in admitting prior-acts evidence was harmless in light of the substantial evidence of guilt. The court also rejected Manning’s unpreserved challenges to the limiting instruction and the instructions concerning the separate counts because the instructions, viewed as a whole, were not plainly erroneous or outcome-determinative.