Gates v. State

Blackburn, Judge.

Corey Gates appeals his conviction by a jury of simple battery based on the insufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction. The standard of review is that set forth in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560) (1979), with the evidence construed most strongly in favor of the verdict.

The evidence showed that while an inmate at Georgia State Prison, Gates intentionally flooded his cell by stopping up the toilet. Gates then threw a cup of feces and liquid through an opening in the cell door and into the chest of a guard. Although Gates argues that his…