Johnson v. State

Bernes, Judge.

A Clayton County jury convicted George Henry Johnson III of armed robbery. Johnson appeals, contending that the trial court erred by allowing the prosecutor to ask a witness leading questions after the witness refused to testify and by failing to charge the jury on corroboration of an accomplice’s testimony. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U. S. 307 (99 SC 2781,61 LE2d 560) (1979), the evidence shows that Johnson and his co-defendants, Eldrick Nelson and Cameron Swain, were friends. On the date of…