JOHNSON v. the STATE.

Brown, Judge.

*540 *854 A jury found Marquis Johnson guilty of aggravated assault and criminal damage to property in the second degree. In this appeal, he contends that the trial court erred by denying his request to charge the jury on the lesser included offense of simple assault and that the evidence was not sufficient to support his conviction for aggravated assault. For the reasons explained below, we disagree and affirm.

On appeal from a criminal conviction, the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence

is whether a rational trier of fact could have found the defendant guilty beyond a…