Spinks v. State

Ray, Judge.

After a jury trial, Richard E Spinks, an alias for a man whose real name is Robert Earl Lee,1 was convicted of burglary and criminal trespass, OCGA §§ 16-7-1 and 16-7-21, respectively. He appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion for a new trial, contending in five enumerations of error that he received ineffective assistance of counsel, and in an additional enumeration that the trial court erred in admitting similar transaction evidence. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Although Spinks does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence used to convict him, we recount it…