Legal Opinion
Simmons v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 5, 2016No. S16A0253PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINES, Presiding Justice.
Jermichael Simmons appeals from his convictions and sentences for malice murder, rape, and aggravated sodomy in connection with the death of Jennifer Sutton. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
Construed to support the verdicts, the evidence showed that on Saturday, March 16, 2013, Sutton’s body was found 50 feet from the road in an overgrown vacant lot in Swainsboro, Georgia. Her jeans and underwear had been pulled down to her knees and the shirts she was wearing had been pulled up to her chest. Blood had come from her mouth, where it appeared that she had been…
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