Carthern v. State

Fletcher, Presiding Justice.

A jury convicted Taylor Christopher Carthern of criminal damage to property in the first degree for shooting a gun into the house of a neighbor. The Court of Appeals of Georgia affirmed. The issue on appeal is whether the act of firing a gun into a residence when no one is physically present interferes with property “in a manner so as to endanger human life.” Construing the phrase “endanger human life” to mean reckless endangerment of another, we hold that a person who fires gunshots into an inhabited dwelling where people are likely to be present endangers human…