Smith v. State

Gregory, Justice.

Willie Howard Smith was convicted by a jury of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. We affirm.

From the evidence at trial, the jury could have found Chester Harvey was performing repairs on a car in the Techwood Homes area of Atlanta at around 2:30 a.m. on July 19, 1984. Two other men were also working on the car while Kimberly Harris held a flashlight. Willie Howard Smith and two others drove up in a 1968 Pontiac. Smith got out of the car and walked around the corner for about five minutes. He returned with a gun and began to argue with Harvey. According to Kimberly…