Yancey v. State

Blackburn, Judge.

Eric Yancey appeals his conviction of two counts of armed robbery. Yancey was tried with a co-defendant who is not involved in this appeal. In Yancey’s two enumerations of error, he contends the trial court abused its discretion by failing to continue the trial against him upon his absence therefrom.

The record is clear that on the second day of trial, Yancey was present but was suffering from the effects of his voluntary ingestion of an overdose of Tylenol which required several interruptions of the trial. After several interruptions within the first hour, the trial court…