Legal Opinion

Brown v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided June 30, 2022No. S22A0603PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

314 Ga. 193

FINAL COPY S22A0603. BROWN v. THE STATE. LAGRUA, Justice. At a trial in August 2016, a Berrien County jury found Appellant Kelvin Brown guilty of malice murder and other crimes related to the shooting death of Cornelius Miller. He now appeals, contending that: (1) the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions; (2) the prosecutor failed to lay a proper foundation before the trial court allowed him to treat witness Tyeesha Gray as a hostile witness; and (3) the trial court erred in allowing two witnesses to testify despite lacking personal knowledge about the shooting. For…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. State v. AlmanzaSupreme Court of Georgia · 2018
  3. Hayes v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1997
  4. Rawls v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2020
  5. Eggleston v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2020

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