Legal Opinion

Rogers v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided June 1, 2021No. S21A0152PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

311 Ga. 634

FINAL COPY S21A0152. ROGERS v. THE STATE. WARREN, Justice. Robert Rogers was convicted of felony murder in connection with the shooting death of Richard Trantham, Jr. On appeal, Rogers contends that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction and that the trial court committed plain error when it admitted certain testimony from a State witness. Seeing no reversible error, we affirm.1 1 Trantham was killed on March 26, 2016. After Rogers’s first trial ended in a mistrial, a Wayne County grand jury re-indicted him on June 5, 2017, charging him with malice murder, felony…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Pyatt v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2016
  3. Bozzie v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017
  4. Mills v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010
  5. Thompson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2018

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3Cited by5 opinions

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