Strickland v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Curtis Strickland was convicted of aggravated assault and appeals.

The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, was as follows. An altercation occurred among a group of young people after a high school basketball game, culminating in the victim being shot seven times with an automatic rifle by a co-indictee, Kenneth Millsap. The victim testified that while he and Millsap were ar guing, appellant said, “. . . man, shoot him.” Appellant gave a statement to the police in which he admitted that he twice told Millsap to “bust” the victim. Millsap…