Johnson v. State

Pope, Presiding Judge.

Keith Johnson appeals his convictions for armed robbery (OCGA § 16-8-41), aggravated battery (OCGA § 16-5-24), and aggravated assault (OCGA § 16-5-21). We affirm.

The evidence at trial, viewed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdict, showed that around 9:00 p.m., on December 12, 1993, 64-year-old Peggy Hanley was brutally assaulted and robbed as she withdrew cash from an automatic teller machine at the First Union Bank in the North Springs Shopping Center in Fulton County. Hanley was cut with a knife during the assault, and the wounds left permanent, disfiguring…