Owen v. State

Sognier, Chief Judge.

Daniel and Jennifer Annette Owen were convicted after a jury trial of the offense of hindering the apprehension of a criminal (OCGA § 16-10-50), and both appeal.

The evidence adduced at trial showed that in December 1988, while awaiting trial on a burglary charge, appellant Annette Owen’s brother, Roger Dale Walston, Jr., escaped from the Murray County jail. After evading authorities for approximately four months, Walston was arrested in March 1989 near his home and the adjacent home of appellants during an investigation of a Fannin County shooting. Appellants were…