Coles v. State

Clarke, Justice.

Chester Coles was convicted of the murder of John Alvin Green and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was also convicted of possession of a firearm by a known felon, OCGA § 16-11-13, and sentenced to five years in prison to run concurrently with the life sentence. The facts are, very simply, that appellant walked up to the victim, who *13was standing with another man outside a convenience store in the Capitol Homes housing project in Fulton County, and, after mumbling something indistinguishable to the victim, fired two shots at him. The victim died several minutes later. Three…