Adkins v. State

314 Ga. 477

FINAL COPY S22A0796. ADKINS v. THE STATE. BETHEL, Justice. After a jury trial, Marion Adkins, Jr., was convicted of malice murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of Latisha Gresham. He appeals, contending that the circumstantial evidence presented at trial failed to exclude all other reasonable hypotheses, such as the commission of the crime by some unknown assailant or Gresham’s possible suicide, and was therefore insufficient to support his conviction. Adkins also argues that the trial court erred by not instructing the jury on “grave suspicion.”1 1 The…