Williams v. State

Ruffin, Chief Judge.

A jury found James Williams, Jr. guilty of burglary. On appeal, Williams claims he was denied effective assistance of counsel because trial counsel did not request a jury charge on identification, which was Williams’s only defense. For the following reasons, we find that Williams’s sole enumeration of error lacks merit, and we affirm.

Williams was charged with entering Ericka Reese’s apartment in the early morning hours of August 30, 2003, while she and her children were sleeping, and taking her purse. Reese testified that she awoke at 3:51 a.m. and saw a stranger at the…