Young v. State

Hines, Justice.

This Court granted Kareem Kenyatta Young’s (‘Young”) application for interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s ruling that the State could introduce evidence of a prior act at his trial. Finding that even though the trial court misapplied this Court’s precedent in Wiliams v. State, 261 Ga. 640 (409 SE2d 649) (1991), it nonetheless reached the correct result, we affirm.

As this is an interlocutory appeal, the record is not completely developed. But, according to the State’s proffer of evidence, Arkeem Young (“Arkeem”) was shot and killed outside his home on July 20, 2005. Young,…