Thurman v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Terry Thurman was convicted of five counts of armed robbery and eight counts of aggravated assault. After merging five of the aggravated assault counts with the counts of armed robbery, the trial court sentenced him to serve seventeen years on each count concurrently. His motion for new trial was denied and he appeals.

The State produced evidence showing that on Christmas Eve of 1990, four black males armed with a shotgun, a sawed-off shotgun, an Uzi and a .38 pistol kicked down the door of a residence in Bowdon, Georgia. Lester Lee Walker testified that he held the…