Waters v. State

317 Ga. 822

FINAL COPY S23A0893. WATERS v. THE STATE. LAGRUA, Justice. Appellant Roy Lee Waters was found guilty but mentally ill of felony murder in connection with the shooting death of Melvina Dunlap.1 On appeal, Waters contends that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction, the trial court erroneously denied Waters’s motion for a new trial on the “general grounds,” and his trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance by failing to further investigate Waters’s insanity defense. For the reasons that follow, these claims fail, and we affirm Waters’s 1 The…