Legal Opinion

Crayton v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 7, 2016No. S15A1506PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BENHAM, Justice.

On April 4, 2011, appellant Antwuan Crayton shot and killed Curtis Lee Mack III.1 We affirm his convictions.

*793The facts, viewed in a light most favorable to sustaining the verdicts, show that appellant was sitting in his green truck when Mack approached him about driving too fast down the street earlier in the day. Witnesses testified that just a few hours prior to the shooting, appellant said he was going to “bury one of them” and the witnesses took that to be a threat against Mack and/or one of his friends who had witnessed appellant’s reckless driving earlier in the day.…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. State v. KellySupreme Court of Georgia · 2011
  3. Edge v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1992
  4. Wright v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2012
  5. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2015

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3Cited by34 opinions

  1. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2016
  2. DAVIS v. THE STATE (Two Cases)Supreme Court of Georgia · 2019
  3. Davis v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2019
  4. Simmons v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2016
  5. Smith v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017

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