Coates v. State

Hunstein, Justice.

**329Appellant Hubert Coates was convicted of, inter alia, four counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and was sentenced on each count.1 Coates appealed; the Court of Appeals affirmed his **330convictions and sentences, concluding that OCGA § 16-11-131 (b) (2014)2 permits a defendant to be separately convicted and sentenced for each of the multiple firearms in his possession. See Coates v. State, 342 Ga. App. 148, 802 S.E.2d 65 (2017). We granted certiorari in this case to consider the Court of Appeals' holding, and, for the reasons discussed below, we…