Eberhart v. State

307 Ga. 254

FINAL COPY S19A0803. EBERHART v. THE STATE. BOGGS, Justice. Appellant Marcus Lecarl Eberhart, a former City of East Point police sergeant, challenges his 2016 conviction for felony murder predicated on aggravated assault in connection with the tasing death of Gregory Lewis Towns, Jr. Appellant contends that the evidence presented at trial was legally insufficient to support his conviction for two reasons. First, he argues that this Court’s decision in Ford v. State,

262 Ga. 602

( 423 SE2d 255) (1992), precludes his felony murder conviction. Second, he argues that proof of intense…