Oliver v. State

Hines, Justice.

Marvio Oliver was convicted of malice murder for the shooting death of Akili Hodari Hart and sentenced to life in prison. We affirm.

1. Oliver maintains that the purely circumstantial evidence was insufficient as a matter of law to support his conviction. Circumstantial evidence need not exclude every inference or hypothesis except that of the defendant’s guilt; it must exclude only those hypotheses which are reasonable. Smith v. State, 257 Ga. 381, 382 (359 SE2d 662) (1987). Reviewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the verdict, it excluded every reasonable hypothesis…