Dennard v. State

Clarke, Chief Justice.

At about two o’clock in the morning on March 11, 1990, Henry L. Dennard and Michael Daniels drove into the parking lot next to a private club in Americus. About 60 people had gathered there that morning. Before leaving, Dennard would shoot Alphonzo Colwell Jenkins in the chest, fatally wounding him.

Appellant’s co-defendant Demetrius Hubbard arrived with Jeffrey Lynn Wright. Wright and Jenkins argued, and someone cooking chicken at the gathering asked Wright to leave. As Wright was driving away, the crowd began beating and rocking Daniels’ truck. A fight broke out, and…