Jackson v. State

Pope, Judge.

Defendant Roy Lee Jackson appeals his conviction by a jury of two counts of armed robbery, enumerating as error the trial court’s instructions to the jury. Held:

1. Defendant, relying on Williams v. Kemp, 255 Ga. 380 (338 SE2d 669), cert. denied, 478 U. S. 1022 (1986) and Powell v. State, 187 Ga. App. 878 (372 SE2d 234) (1988), first argues that the trial court’s charge to the jury that they could “infer . . . that a person of sound mind and discretion intends the natural and probable consequences of his acts” is unconstitutionally burden-shifting and hence his conviction must be…