Desaussure v. State

Clarke, Presiding Justice.

Appellant was convicted of the murder of Abraham Wilson and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and sentenced to life imprisonment and a term of years.1

The evidence at trial showed that appellant and victim, who were cousins, had participated in a bank robbery in New York and that the victim had threatened appellant’s mother and had failed to give him his fair share of the robbery proceeds. Appellant killed the victim at the victim’s home in Lowndes County, Georgia, where the victim, appellant, and three house guests from New York had gathered to…