McCullum v. State

318 Ga. 485

FINAL COPY S23A0927. MCCULLUM V. THE STATE. PINSON, Justice. In November 2019, Appellant Samuel Earl McCullum was con- victed of the 1998 rape and malice murder of Monica Blackwell and the 1999 rape of C. C.1 McCullum contends on appeal that his con- victions for the malice murder and rape of Blackwell, who died of cocaine intoxication and blunt-force trauma, were not supported by 1 Blackwell died on August 6, 1998, and C. C. was raped on May 9, 1999. On February 28, 2017, a DeKalb County grand jury indicted McCullum for malice murder (Count 1), felony murder predicated on rape…