Smith v. State

Johnson, Judge.

A jury found Akeem Smith guilty of four counts of aggravated assault with a handgun and three counts of robbery by intimidation. The trial court entered judgments of conviction, imposed concurrent twenty-year sentences for the robberies and one of the aggravated assault counts, and merged the remaining counts into the robberies. After the denial of a motion for new trial, Smith appeals.

1. Construed most strongly in support of the verdicts, the evidence shows that Smith and two accomplices were in Smith’s car when they stopped and approached four men. Smith and his accomplices…