Gilstrap v. State

JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.

A Fulton County jury found Alvin Gilstrap guilty of voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and concealing the death of another. The trial judge ruled that the aggravated assault merged with the voluntary manslaughter, for which he sentenced Gilstrap to serve fifteen years in confinement and five years on probation. The trial court also imposed a ten-year probated sentence for concealing the death of another. Gilstrap appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the voluntary manslaughter verdict. The challenge is without merit, and we thus…