Collins v. State

Benham, Chief Justice.

On June 3, 1996, Maganbhai Patel died after being shot in his DeKalb County dry cleaning store. An employee of a nearby pet store testified he heard gunshots from the neighboring dry cleaners shortly after appellant Dante Collins and another man had left the pet store, where they had made an inquiry about snakes. He identified Collins as one of the two men he saw run past the pet store from the direction of the dry cleaners. Another witness also heard the shots and identified Collins as one of the two men he saw running from the dry cleaners.

Antone Leonard, who had been…