Cross v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

A Walker County jury found Mike Cross guilty of the 1992 burglary and first degree arson of Armuchee Elementary School in Lafayette, Walker County, Georgia, as a result of which the elementary school was almost completely consumed by fire. He appeals.1

Although Cross enumerates nine errors on appeal, his one and one-half page “Argument and Citation of Authority” challenges only the sufficiency of the evidence based upon (1) the alleged false testimony of State’s witness Steve Hackney; and (2) the alleged failure of the State to prove “the incendiary nature of the fire,” thereby…