Legal Opinion

Lewis v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided June 25, 2012No. S12A0400PublishedCited by 31 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Hines, Justice.

Willie Henry Lewis appeals his convictions for the malice murders of Xavier Dinkins and Kejaun Webb, as well as a variety of other crimes that occurred over a four-day crime spree.1 For the reasons that follow, we affirm in part, vacate in part, and remand.

Construed to support the verdicts, the evidence showed that Lewis stole a dark colored Jeep Cherokee in DeKalb County on October 5, 2001, confronting the vehicle’s owner, Robert Chandler, *274with a chrome .357 revolver. On October 7, 2001, Lewis accosted Travis Reid and Xavier Dinkins while they were walking along a street. He…

2Cases cited38 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Malcolm v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1993
  4. Smith v. FrancisSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985
  5. State v. JacksonSupreme Court of Georgia · 2010

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3Cited by31 opinions

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  5. Allen v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2015

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