Houston v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, Presiding Judge.
A jury found Kara Houston guilty of aggravated assault and robbery. Houston appeals, alleging the trial court erred in admitting similar transaction evidence and in allowing a detective to read the statement of a witness to the jury. We find no harmful error and affirm Houston’s convictions.
Viewed in a light most favorable to support the jury’s verdict, the evidence shows that on January 2,2002, Quanitis Reese was working as a cashier at the drive-through window of a Mrs. Winner’s restaurant on Candler Road. A woman, whom Reese positively identified as Houston, came…
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