Timmons v. State

HINES, Chief Justice.

Kyle Devonte Timmons appeals his convictions and sentences for felony murder, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery, in connection with the shooting death of Dominique Alexander Spears. For the reasons that follow, we affirm in part and vacate in part.1

Construed to support the verdicts, the evidence showed that a month before Spears was killed, Timmons visited Marshawn Hamilton in Rome, Georgia, a town in which Timmons had lived before moving away During that visit, Timmons and Hamilton went to a sports bar, which Spears and some friends were patronizing. When…