Legal Opinion

WILLIAMS v. the STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided August 8, 2018No. A18A1141PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Ellington, Presiding Judge.

*171 A Henry County jury found Khary Williams guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of four counts of aggravated assault, OCGA § 16-5-21 (a) (2) (with a deadly weapon). Following the denial of his motion for new trial, Williams appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence disproving his affirmative defense of justification. For the reasons provided below, we affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict, 1 the evidence showed the following. For about a year preceding the incident *172 at issue, Williams lived with his fiancée and her four children in…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Rankin v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2004
  3. Howard v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2011
  4. Bishop v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2004
  5. Mosley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2017

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  1. ROWLAND v. the STATE.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2019

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