Stevens v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted for aggravated assault and appeals his jury conviction of simple battery. The sole enumeration of error is that the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law to support the conviction. Held:

We do not agree with defendant that the evidence adduced at trial was totally circumstantial and failed to exclude every reasonable hypothesis save the guilt of the accused. Rather, there was direct evidence from numerous witnesses involved in the chain of events and *58defendant admitted throwing the bottle which injured the victim, claiming that he did so…