Coates v. State

304 Ga. 329

FINAL COPY S17G1949. COATES v. THE STATE. HUNSTEIN, Justice. Appellant Hubert Coates was convicted of, inter alia, four counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and was sentenced on each count.1 Coates appealed; the Court of Appeals affirmed his convictions and sentences, concluding that OCGA § 16-11-131 (b) (2014)2 permits a defendant to be separately convicted and sentenced for each of the multiple firearms in his possession. See Coates v. State,

342 Ga. App. 148

( 802 SE2d 65) (2017). We granted certiorari in this case to consider the Court of Appeals’ holding, and,…