Johnson v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Simple assault. Grady Johnson was convicted of simple assault and fined $100. Accepting the facts most favorable to the verdict, we find the trial court was authorized to conclude that Johnson was at the entrance to a private road leading to a Georgia-Pacific industrial plant. Johnson was one of several strikers picketing the plant. The alleged victim, the personnel manager of the local plant, was bringing three “strike breakers” in his personal auto through the picket lines. The evidence shows that the auto slowed at the intersection of a county road and the private road,…