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Baker v. State

The defendant shot the victim in the chest and stood over the victim, threatening to shoot him in the back of the head, if he moved again.

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Roger Lee Baker, Jr. was convicted in 2008 of malice murder and related crimes in the shooting death of Calvin Ellison and sentenced to life in prison. Baker appeals, arguing as his sole enumeration of error that the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to enable a rational jury to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Finding no merit in Baker’s argument, we affirm.1 The evidence presented at trial, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, enabled the jury to find as follows. On July 7, 2007, 58-year-old Calvin Ellison drove in his SUV to a house his cousin was renovating to see if he could borrow ten dollars for gas. The two heard an argument on the next block and walked over to see what the commotion was.

The commotion was in Baker’s yard. Baker, a career criminal approximately ten years Ellison’s junior, lived with his elderly parents, his nephew, his girlfriend, and his own three young children. Baker had been arguing with his brother, who brought Baker’s children back home unexpectedly so he could go to work. Baker was mad at his brother, because he had plans to go out with his girlfriend that night.

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