Overton v. State

Barnes, Chief Judge.

Initially eight defendants were charged with the offenses leading to these appeals. Two defendants were granted new trials, one is a fugitive, and one pled guilty and testified against the other defendants. The remaining four defendants are appealing their convictions. Because their convictions arise from the same general factual allegations, they were tried and convicted jointly, and they generally assert the same enumerations of error, we have consolidated their four appeals for disposition.

The indictments alleged that Ronald Coleman, Jr., and Carlston Coleman, Jr.,…