Taylor v. State

Hunt, Justice.

Lamonte Taylor, a/k/a Malik, was convicted of malice murder in Gwinnett County. The jury did not recommend the death penalty, and Taylor was sentenced to life in prison.1 He appeals; we affirm.

Defendant, Lamonte Taylor, and co-defendant, Wayne Swinton, waited in an office parking deck for the owner of either of two new *430cars to approach in order to steal one of the cars. When the victim, Raymond McMahon, appeared, the defendants abducted him in his car and eventually gagged him and beat him to death with the butt of a shotgun. Two days later, they set the car on fire and…