Legal Opinion

Polke v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided October 25, 2022No. S22A1220PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

315 Ga. 33

FINAL COPY S22A1220. POLKE v. THE STATE. ELLINGTON, Justice. A Tattnall County jury found Barbra Ann Polke guilty of malice murder and other crimes arising from the shooting death of her former girlfriend, Ashley Sharpe.1 Polke contends that the evidence was insufficient to support her convictions beyond a 1 A Tattnall County grand jury indicted Polke on February 24, 2015, for felony murder (Count 1), aggravated assault (Count 2), malice murder (Count 3), possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony (Count 4), and two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Hayes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2013
  3. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017
  4. Bulloch v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2013
  5. Holmes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2019

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