Jordan v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

Tremaine Jordan was convicted of aggravated battery and aggravated assault.1 In his single enumeration, he challenges the effectiveness of his trial counsel.

This case arose after Jordan’s former girl friend called him, seeking a ride to the house of the victim, her new boyfriend. Jordan obliged and dropped her off; then, professing to have car trouble, he returned to use the phone. Price v. State, 222 Ga. App. 655, 657 (2) (475 SE2d 692) (1996) (evidence on appeal must be viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict). Jordan called several friends, who, upon their…