Phillips v. State

The defendant, Carroll Junior Phillips, appeals from his convictions and sentence for two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony. For the following reasons, we reverse.

On February 6, 1999, Janice Hansford and Thomas Stevens1 were shot near the Zena supermarket. Ms. Hansford was shot in the leg. In connection with the shootings, the defendant was charged with: (1) unlawfully and feloniously attempting to kill Thomas Stevens from a premeditated design to effect his death by shooting him with a firearm; (2)…