Legal Opinion

Mainor v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 7, 1990No. S89A0337PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Clarke, Chief Justice.

Kenneth Mainor was convicted of felony murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and criminal trespass. He appeals. We affirm.1

1. In his first enumeration of error, Mainor asserts that the evidence of aggravated assault, the predicate felony for the felony murder charge, was insufficient to support the conviction. Construing the evidence in a light most favorable to the verdict, the record shows that Ernest Lightsey, Jr. and his wife, Hazel Lightsey were hunting with permission on the Ivanhoe Plantation. She was in a tree stand, hunting hogs with…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Kelly v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1978
  3. Short v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1986
  4. Baty v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1987

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Jones v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1991
  2. State v. MattoxSupreme Court of Kansas · 2005
  3. State v. LoganSupreme Court of South Carolina · 2013
  4. Chapman v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1996
  5. Lumpkins v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1994

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