Legal Opinion
Lockhart v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 1, 2016No. S15A1461PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINES, Presiding Justice.
Joe Lockhart appeals from his convictions and sentences for malice murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, all in connection with the death of Bernard Campbell. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
Construed to support the verdicts, the evidence showed that Lockhart had supplied Campbell some automobile wheel rims to sell. Campbell, together with Carl Freeman, sold the rims and then went to Freeman’s home at 6:00 p.m. on August 18, 2008. Campbell then left and went to a nearby park. Lockhart, seeking his share of the proceeds from the…
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