Grimes v. State

Ellington, Judge.

A Tift County jury found Reginald Grimes guilty of armed robbery, OCGA § 16-8-41; and kidnapping, OCGA § 16-5-40. Following the denial of his motion for a new trial, Grimes appeals, challenging only the sufficiency of the evidence of the asportation element of kidnapping. For the reasons that follow, we reverse Grimes’s conviction for kidnapping (Count 2 of the indictment).

In reviewing Grimes’s sufficiency challenge,

we construe the evidence favorably to support the jury’s verdict, and [Grimes] no longer enjoys a presumption of innocence. We do not weigh the evidence or…