Hamilton v. State

309 Ga. 1

FINAL COPY S20A0483. HAMILTON v. THE STATE. BOGGS, Justice. At a 2018 jury trial, Rodney Hamilton was convicted of felony murder based upon aggravated battery, arising out of the death of his three-year-old adopted daughter, Tamia. He appeals, asserting insufficiency of the evidence and error in the admission of expert testimony from Dr. Mary Case regarding Tamia’s brain injury. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.1 1. Construed in the light most favorable to the jury’s verdicts,2 1 The crimes occurred on January 30, 2015. On July 22, 2015, a Gwinnett County grand jury indicted…