Morris v. State

Andrews, Presiding Judge.

Franklin Morris appeals from the judgment entered on the jury’s verdict of guilty of aggravated assault, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and the court’s upholding of the State’s challenges, pursuant to Georgia v. McCollum, 505 U. S. 42 (112 SC 2348, 120 LE2d 33) (1992), to two of Morris’ peremptory strikes. Finding the evidence legally sufficient and the challenges properly upheld, we affirm.

1. Considering first the fourth enumeration which challenges the sufficiency of the evidence, viewed in favor of the jury’s verdict, the evidence was that Morris had…