O'NEILL v. State

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

We granted Brian O’Neill’s petition for writ of certiorari to review whether the Court of Appeals erred by finding the evidence was sufficient to uphold O’Neill’s conviction for possession of methamphetamine. Bryant v. State, 288 Ga. App. 863 (2) (655 SE2d 707) (2007). Because the Court of Appeals improperly relied on a statement by O’Neill’s co-conspirator that was not admissible against O’Neill pursuant to OCGA § 24-3-52 and the admissible evidence in the record failed to exclude every other reasonable hypothesis except the guilt of the accused, OCGA § 24-4-6, we…