Horton v. State

Beasley, Judge.

Convicted and sentenced on three counts of armed robbery (OCGA § 16-8-41) and one count of theft by taking (OCGA § 16-8-2), Vershorn Horton enumerates three errors: (i) the court found he did not establish a prima facie case of race discrimination in the State’s exercise of its peremptory jury challenges; (ii) the court improperly intimated he was guilty when it informed the jury that a co-indictee had pled guilty and had been sentenced; and (iii) he was denied effective assistance by counsel’s failing to move for a mistrial when the court spoke of the co-indictee’s guilty plea.