Legal Opinion
Holmes v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided May 3, 1999No. S99A0337PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Carley, Justice.
Dornell Fabrian Holmes and Michael Rhodes were tried jointly before a jury. Rhodes was acquitted, but Holmes was found guilty of the felony and malice murder of Dushun Hoggro, and the commission of an aggravated assault upon Troy Edwards. Since the felony murder verdict was vacated by operation of OCGA § 16-1-7, the trial court properly entered a judgment of conviction only on the malice murder and aggravated assault verdicts. Lowe v. State, 267 Ga. 410 (478 SE2d 762) (1996); Malcolm v. State, 263 Ga. 369, 372 (4) (434 SE2d 479) (1993). The trial court sentenced Holmes to life…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Ohio v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Malcolm v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
- Chapel v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1998
- Carr v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
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