Legal Opinion
Freeman v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 26, 2009No. S08A1802PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINES, Justice.
Thomas Ray Freeman appeals his convictions for felony murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime in connection with the death of Rodney Dixon. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
Construed to support the verdicts, the evidence showed that Freeman was the stepfather of Patrick Phillip Stahl, his co-defendant. See Stahl v. State, 284 Ga. 316 (699 SE2d 655) (2008). Stahl’s sister needed money for a divorce, and Stahl believed that Dixon had large amounts of cash in his house; Stahl occasionally worked at Dixon’s car sales business and assisted him in…
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