Powell v. State

Beasley, Chief Judge.

A jury convicted Powell of inciting to riot (OCGA § 16-11-31 (a)). He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence.

After 14-year-old Anderson rejected Powell’s request to have sex with him, Powell threatened to have his 18-year-old girl friend, Johnson, beat her. Powell then informed Johnson that Anderson had been talking about her and suggested that Johnson go up the street to meet Anderson. As Anderson and her friends Lattimore and Faust walked down the street, Johnson cursed them and ordered her three-year-old son to hit Anderson. When the child, whose father was Powell,…