McKinney v. State

Ellington, Judge.

Randolph McKinney, convicted by a Fulton County jury of two counts of armed robbery, OCGA § 16-8-41 (a), appeals from the denial of his motion for new trial, contending that the State failed to prove venue. Because the record shows that the State failed to prove venue was in Fulton County, we must reverse McKinney’s conviction.

The standard for review of the sufficiency of the evidence to support a criminal conviction is whether after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the…