State v. Owens

BENHAM, Justice.

Appellee Maria Owens was tried and convicted in regard to the death of an eleven-month-old infant Jaylen Kelly.1 The State contends the trial court erred when it failed to sentence appellee on the convictions for felony murder, but rather sentenced her on the *206conviction for the lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter (OCGA § 16-5-3 (a)). Because the jury returned mutually exclusive verdicts in this case, the judgment of conviction for involuntary manslaughter is reversed.

1. Viewed in a light most favorable to the jury’s verdicts of guilt, the evidence at trial…