Johnson v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Johnson’s convictions for felony murder and first-degree cruelty to children, holding that the evidence was constitutionally and statutorily sufficient and rejecting each evidentiary, confrontation, expert-testimony, witness-procurement, and jury-instruction challenge. The court held that most challenged rulings were within the trial court’s discretion, while any error in admitting one pre-autopsy photograph was harmless and the failure to give an accident instruction did not constitute plain error.