Leonard v. State

316 Ga. 827

FINAL COPY S23A0135. LEONARD v. THE STATE. BETHEL, Justice. Following a jury trial, Appellant Joshua Leonard was convicted of malice murder and related crimes arising from the August 2010 shooting of Calvin Grimes, which resulted in Grimes’s death approximately ten months later from complications related to gunshot wounds.1 On appeal, Leonard argues that the trial court 1 In January 2014, a Muscogee County grand jury indicted Leonard and co-defendant Jarvis Alexander for malice murder (Count 1), felony murder predicated on aggravated assault (Count 2), two counts of aggravated…