Burns v. State

Ruffin, Judge.

A jury found Renard Burns, Jr., guilty of armed robbery and aggravated assault. Burns appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence. He also argues that the trial court erred in admitting his written confession and in permitting the lead investigator to remain in the courtroom after he invoked the rule of sequestration. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

1. In reviewing Burns’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, we construe the evidence in a light favorable to the jury’s verdict. We do not weigh the evidence or resolve issues of witness credibility, but merely…