Williams v. State

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

Following a jury trial, Zester Williams appeals his conviction of theft by receiving an electronic sound system stolen in a burglary at St. Paul’s Missionary Baptist Church in Thomasville, Thomas Comity, Georgia, in January 1999. We affirm. Williams was also charged and acquitted of the offense of burglary in this incident.

Williams contends that: (1) the trial court erred in refusing to grant a directed verdict as to the theft by receiving count, as the State failed to corroborate defendant’s statement to police that he possessed the stolen property in Thomas…