State v. McDonald

TIMMONS-GOODSON, Judge.

Defendant Charles Michael McDonald appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict convicting him of robbery with a firearm. The relevant facts follow.

At trial, the State’s evidence tended to show that at approximately 9:30 p.m. on the night of 28 March 1996, defendant went to Joyce Covington’s house and asked one of her guests if he could “see her reefer.” Covington testified that defendant appeared to be “high on something,” and that when the guest showed defendant the marijuana in her possession, he took it, put it in his pocket, said “I gots to get mines,” and…