Amaechi v. State

Pope, Presiding Judge.

A Gwinnett Comity jury found Collins Amaechi guilty of robbery by sudden snatching. On appeal, Amaechi claims the trial court’s erroneous instructions effectively prevented the jury from considering the lesser offense of theft by taking. He also claims that he received ineffective assistance of counsel and that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction. For reasons which follow, we affirm.

Viewed favorably to the verdict, the record shows that on the afternoon of December 23, 1999, Benjamin Lamkin was playing basketball with a friend, Mark Morales, outside…