Burns v. the State

Branch, Judge.

Following a jury trial, Willie Lewis Burns was convicted in DeKalb County Superior Court of aggravated assault and theft by receiving stolen property. Burns now appeals from the denial of his motion for a new trial on the charge of aggravated assault, asserting that his lawyer’s failure to request an instruction regarding the requirement that accomplice testimony be corroborated constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. Burns further contends that the trial court committed plain error when, after instructing the jury that the testimony of a single witness was sufficient to…