Shells v. the State (two Cases)

Summary

The Court affirmed Shells’s and Leslie’s convictions arising from two robberies, one resulting in Tucker’s death. It held that the evidence sufficiently established Shells’s shared criminal intent and that the gunshot wounds caused Tucker’s death, and it rejected Leslie’s challenges concerning arraignment, discovery, authentication, sequestration, lay testimony, ineffective assistance, and cumulative prejudice. The Court concluded that Leslie acquiesced in the waiver of his arraignment presence and failed to show reversible prejudice from any claimed error or deficiency.